Murder Victim’s Brother Arrested

TYLER – Smith County Sheriff J.B. Smith confirms the 15-year-old brother of murdered Chapel Hill student Amanda Anderson has been arrested in the case. Mark Nathaniel Anderson was taken into custody yesterday afternoon. According to KETK, Amanda Anderson, 19, was found murdered in her house in September, shot four times in the head. The arrest affidavit says that inconsistencies in the younger Anderson’s story led authorities to believe he might be the killer. Ms. Anderson was shot 4 times in the head with a .22 caliber weapon, which authorities believe to have been a semi-automatic pistol belonging to her brother. Sheriff Smith says from the start of the investigation all of the evidence has pointed to the girl’s brother.