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Only on 4: Classmates in Santa Cruz speak about 15-year-old suspect in Maddy Middleton murder case

SANTA CRUZ (KRON) — The grisly murder of 8-year-old Maddy Middleton is sending shock waves through the Santa Cruz community.

In a story you will see Only on 4, Emily Turner is learning more from stunned students about the teen now charged with murder.


The last post on Adrian Gozalez’s Instagram was the day he was accused of killing 8-year-old maddy. He is playing the song, “Mad World.”

And a mad world is exactly what Adrian’s classmates said they are living in now that they know he is charged with murder.

They said the 15-year-old soon-to-be sophomore kept to himself, played piano for the jazz band, and above everything else, loved his yo yo.