PENN HILLS, Pennsylvania (AP) -- Police on Wednesday arrested an 18-year-old accused of stabbing his 11-year-old twin half brothers, killing one of them and critically injuring the other.
Troy Lavalle Hill, 18, is accused of killing one twin and attempting to kill the other.
1 of 3 The boys' grandfather, Lovett Williams, said he heard Tyrel Hill call out, "Pappy, I'm dead. I'm dying," when he went to the family's suburban Pittsburgh home to check on them Tuesday.
Williams went to the attic, where he found Tyrel, wrapped in a blood-soaked blanket, and the body of his twin, Tyron.
"There was blood everywhere," Williams said. "Everywhere. Blood all over the house. Downstairs, up the steps."
The surviving twin identified his older half-brother, Troy Lavalle Hill, as the attacker, police and Williams said.
"I said, 'Who did this?' He said, 'Troy,"' Williams said.
Police and dogs searching the woods near the family's Penn Hills home had been unable to find Troy Hill, but he was arrested Wednesday after he emerged from woods beyond the area authorities had searched. Allegheny County Police Assistant Superintendent James Morton said he did not know how far Hill had been from the home.
"I know it's not where we were looking for him last night," Morton said Wednesday afternoon. "He just continued farther into the woods than we thought he did."
Hill was arraigned in Allegheny County Night Court on charges of criminal homicide and attempted homicide and held without bond in the county jail.
Police said they believe Hill has emotional problems. Tiffany Hill, the twins' mother and the suspect's stepmother, told police that Troy Hill "has been depressed and despondent" for about a month, according to the criminal complaint.
Tyrel was in critical condition Wednesday at Children's Hospital of Pittsburgh, but police said he was expected to survive.
"I don't know how I'm going to make it," Lovett Williams told reporters. "I moved here so I could be with my grandsons. I hope I can survive. As long as (Tyrel) makes it, I might make it, too."
Troy Hill played football for Waynesburg College last season but did not return for the fall semester.
"All I know is he's been depressed lately," Williams' wife, Clem Williams, said Wednesday. "I don't know what happened when the boys got home from school."
The three brothers lived with their parents and a 3-year-old sister in Penn Hills, about five miles east of Pittsburgh. The little girl was not home when the twins were stabbed, Clem Williams said.
The grandparents live near the family and went to check on the twins after their mother tried calling the house from work and got no answer, police said.
"I just know they were a lovely, close-knit family," said neighbor Marlene Hogan. "All the boys were great. The twins were the sweetest kids."
Penn Hills School District officials said grief counselors were available Wednesday at Linton Middle School to help the boys' classmates cope.
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http://www.cnn.com/2007/US/08/30/twi....ap/index.html 
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