Anthian Goehring, Malik Thomas, Douglas Cochran Jr. and Richard White were arrested in connection with the death of 10-year-old Taniyah Thomas.

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Taniyah Thomas, 10, was laid to rest Saturday in Washington County.Hours earlier, four men were charged with her murder.It was a peaceful service, in contrast to the chaos outside Washington Police Headquarters on Friday night.The girl's family was there confronting the people they said were responsible for her murder: Anthian Goehring, Douglas Cochran, Jr., Malik Thomas and Richard Tayvonn White.Police said the four men arrived at an apartment building on Chestnut Street in Washington to rob Taniyah's mother and her boyfriend of cash.Investigators said Goehring and Cochran fired multiple shots into the apartment through the front door, hitting Taniyah twice.The victim's father said he knows all four suspects. Some of them called him in the days after the girl's killing, he said.Cochran and Thomas were caught by police Wednesday on unrelated drug charges. White and Goehring were captured Friday by police."We did have some surveillance video from different locations in the city to show were people were or weren't," said Washington Police Lt. Daniel Stanek.Cochran cried aloud after being arraigned Friday night.Thomas, who sat behind Cochran at the hearing, is a distant cousin of victim.Police said Taniyah was alseep when the home invasion began early Monday. She got out of bed when she heard a commotion and was fatally shot.