A 8-year-old Virginia boy was beaten to death Thursday trying to defend his 12-year-old sister from a brutal rape, police and relatives said. The siblings were playing in their backyard when the suspect approached them and sexually assaulted the girl, police said. The boy tried to help his sister, and the suspect struck him in the head with a brick, police said. He died at the scene, the Richmond Times-Dispatch reported. A male teenage suspect was being medically evaluated while a warrant was issued for his arrest, according to NBC affiliate WWBT.

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