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THIS IS THE VIDEO OF THE BOY RUNNING TO SAFETY, AFTER POLICE SAY HIS BROTHER EIGHT-YEAR-OLD MARK MASON WAS KILLED INSIDE OF A HOUSE ON HIGH STREET IN NEW CASTLE. KELLEY DELANEY SAYS SHE WAS AT A NEARBY SOCIAL CLUB WHEN THE LITTLE BOY CAME RUNNING DOWN THE HILL, YELLING THAT SOMEONE HAD KILLED HIS BROTHER. SHE SAYS HE WAS BAREFOOT, CARRYING FLIP FLOPS TO RUN FASTER. >> HE SAID, I KNOW HE’S DEAD. I STOP -- SAW HIM STAB HIM. I KNOW HE’S DEAD. HE SAID HE’S DEAD. CHANDI: POLICE SAY KEITH BURLEY STABBED MARK MASON TO DEATH, AFTER A DOMESTIC VIOLENCE INCIDENT WITH THE BOY’S MOTHER. A CRIMINAL COMPLAINT SAYS THE MOTHER WAS IN THE CAR WITH HER TWO BOYS, THEY PICKED UP BURLEY, AND THERE WAS A FIGHT. WHEN THE MOTHER STOPPED THE CAR TO GET HELP, BURLEY DROVE THE CAR WITH THE BOYS TO HIGH STREET AND ALLEGEDLY STABBED MARK MASON. DELANEY SAYS SHE KNEW THE YOUNG BOY WAS TELLING THE TRUTH BECAUSE SHE’S BEEN THROUGH A VIOLENT DOMESTIC SITUATION AND IT GAVE HER FLASHBACKS OF HOW HER KIDS LOOKED WHEN SHE WAS INJURED WITH A HATCHET. >> I KNEW HE WAS TELLING THE TRUTH, HE KEPT SAYING THE SAME THING OVER AND OVER AGAIN AND HE KEPT SAYING THAT THE GUY KILLED PEOPLE BEFORE AND THAT HIS BROTHER WAS DEAD AND HE KNEW HE WAS DEAD

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A man on parole for a previous homicide was arrested Tuesday and charged with fatally stabbing his girlfriend's 8-year-old son during what police said started as a domestic dispute in Union Township, Lawrence County.Tap the video player above to watch the latest report from Pittsburgh's Action News 4.After Pennsylvania State Police sent out word of a tip that a suspect in the death of 8-year-old Mark Mason had turned up in the Youngstown area, a special Northern Ohio Violent Fugitive Task Force nabbed Burley as he walked down a street about a mile from the Mahoning County Jail that is now holding him."It's gratifying (to make the arrest), when you see somebody -- especially a child -- getting killed. I mean, this guy needed to be off the street," Deputy U.S. Marshal Keith Yauger, team leader of the task force, told Pittsburgh's Action News 4.According to the criminal complaint, Mark was in a car with his younger brother and his mother when they picked up Burley. The mother and Burley got into a fight over a phone, police said, and the mother pulled the car over in the New Castle Fire Department parking lot to get help. That's when police say Burley drove away with the children in the car.Burley eventually went to a home in High Street in Union Township, where he allegedly stabbed Mark, the complaint said.How the neighborhood is responding: Click the video below to watch the report.An alert from Pennsylvania warned Burley was armed and dangerous, but the violent fugitive task force in Youngstown found and arrested him within an hour of getting a group text with his photo and the lead from Pennsylvania State Police.“These guys were in on (the arrest), they got in the area right away,” Yauger said. He told Pittsburgh’s Action News 4 the task force set up a perimeter where Burley was believed to be in Youngstown, and when he was spotted near Market Street and Falls Avenue, they made their move.“Our guys got in front of him and behind him. We got him and just approached him together and he was on the sidewalk. He did not resist,” Yauger said.Task force leader speaks about the suspect's arrest: Watch the video below.A family friend told Pittsburgh's Action News 4 that the victim's mother is devastated, and that her children "were her world."The mother worked a full- and part-time job to help provide for the family. One of those part-time jobs was at a local family restaurant, which closed for the day Tuesday. A sign posted outside the restaurant said there had been "a sudden and unfortunate death in the family."Burley served nearly two decades in prison for a third-degree homicide in a stabbing and shooting in 1999 but had been on parole since March. He was arrested about nine hours after Pennsylvania State Police say he stabbed and killed his girlfriend's child. Click the video below to see Burley in police custody.