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Q: After door-to-door sweeps proved fruitless, law officers urged residents of a small town in Northern California to lock their door and keep a close eye on streets and yards for a man who stabbed an 8-year-old girl to death in her house. 
  
 The attacker, only described as wearing a black shirt and blue pants, was the subject of a broad search Sunday by the sheriff's departments of Calaveras and surrounding counties, the California Highway Patrol and the state Department of Justice. 
  
 Eight-year-old Leila Fowler was stabbed to death on Saturday at the home in Valley Springs, Coroner Kevin Raggio said. The town has about 2,500 people. 
  
 "This is way too close to home," Julia Poland, who took her 13-year-old daughter to an afternoon news conference on the search, told the Modesto Bee. "This kind of thing does not happen here." 
  
 Leila was found by her brother _ reported by local media to be 12-years-old _ after he encountered a male intruder in the home. When the intruder ran away, the boy found his sister stabbed. She was pronounced dead at a local hospital, officials said. 
  
 Authorities spent Saturday night and into Sunday conducting a door-to-door sweep of homes scattered across hilly terrain, checking storage sheds and horse stables, and even searching attics. 
  
 "It is a difficult area to search, it's rural, remote," sheriff's Capt. Jim Macedo said. 
  
 Mass notifications alerted residents about the incident and the search for the suspect, officials said. 
  
 "I was working on my tractor and a CHP copter kept flying over my house," area resident Roger Ballew, 35, told The Associated Press on Sunday. 
  
 A SWAT team showed up at his house Saturday night and told him to stay inside, Ballew said. 
  
 "It was nerve-wracking, I didn't sleep well," he said. 
  
 Investigators on Sunday were interviewing several people, but no suspects had been named by late afternoon. Investigators were checking out tips that had come in to the sheriff's office, including leads and tips that came from outside the county, officials said. 
  
 "It's just terrible," area resident Paul Gschweng told Sacramento television station KCRA. "What can I say about it, it's just a tragedy." 
  
 The station reported that a neighbor told police that a man was running from the girl's home after the incident. 
  
 Investigators were asking area residents to call authorities if they had any information, or knew of anyone who may have unexplained injuries, or may have left the area unexpectedly after the girl was killed. 
  
 Valley Springs is a community of about 2,500 people in an unincorporated area of Calaveras County, known as "Gold Country," in the foothills of the Sierra Nevada mountains, about 60 miles southeast of Sacramento. 
  
 The county became world-famous in 1865 with Mark Twain's short story, "The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County," according to the Calaveras County Chamber of Commerce website. ||||| CALAVERAS COUNTY- 
  
 Schools in the Calaveras Unified School District will be open Monday, two days after 8-year-old Leila Fowler was stabbed to death in her Valley Springs home. 
  
 Mark Campbell, the district’s superintendent, said in a statement Sunday, “As we all grapple with the tragic and senseless loss of one of our own, we do so knowing that we will be ready to do what is necessary to provide a safe environment for students and for staff, and to stand unified and strong as we provide whatever level of support and assistance that is necessary to help the family, our students, our parents and our staff process the unthinkable.” 
  
 Campbell added that counselors will be on hand at Jenny Lind Elementary, Toyon Middle School and Calaveras High School. There will also be an added law enforcement presence at Jenny Lind elementary and bus stops nearby. ||||| — The Calaveras County coroner's office has released the cause of death for 8-year-old Leila Fowler. Deputy coroner Steve Moore said she died from shock and hemorrhaging from multiple stab wounds. 
  
 Moore said Leila arrived by ambulance at Mark Twain Medical Center in San Andreas at 12:55 p.m. Saturday and was pronounced dead at 1:01 p.m. Moore declined to release more details. 
  
 On Monday, the Sheriff's Department scaled back its massive manhunt for the man suspected of fatally stabbing Leila at her Rancho Calaveras home over the weekend. 
  
 Leila was a third-grader at Jenny Lind Elementary School in Valley Springs. 
  
 Friends described her as a child with a smile that would melt anyone's heart and a winning personality, and as a daddy's girl who loved the color purple. 
  
 Sheriff's Capt. Jim Macedo said Leila's family has asked the public to help catch her killer by reporting anything relevant to a tip line at (209) 754-6030. 
  
 Leila's slaying has rocked Valley Springs and Rancho Calaveras, two small towns a couple of miles apart along Highways 12 and 26 and by New Hogan Lake. A few dozen anxious and frustrated people turned out Sunday afternoon for a news conference at the sheriff's Valley Springs substation for an update. 
  
 "This is way too close to home. This kind of thing does not happen here," said Julia Poland, who brought her 13-year-old daughter, KyLee, to the news conference. 
  
 Authorities said a white or Latino man attacked Leila at her Rippon Road home early Saturday afternoon. Leila's 12-year-old brother told investigators he encountered the man, who fled on foot, and then discovered his sister. 
  
 Macedo said the boy called his parents, who were nearby, and then called 911. The parents also called 911. Leila was taken to a hospital in Calaveras County, where she was pronounced dead. 
  
 Authorities called residents of Rippon Road and other nearby streets and asked them to lock their doors and windows and stay inside as officers launched a search for the child killer. Officers searched houses, attics, crawl spaces, sheds, outbuildings and tall grass Saturday afternoon and through the night. 
  
 Authorities closed part of Rippon Road and other nearby streets, although residents were able to come and go. 
  
 The search continued through Sunday afternoon. Macedo, the sheriff's captain, said searchers found fingerprints and what they believe to be DNA evidence in the girl's home and hope to have lab results back within a week. 
  
 Macedo declined to release many details of the homicide, saying he did not want to jeopardize the investigation. He could not say when the search would end, saying it would depend on the leads officers developed from their interviews and the search. Details on search areas beyond the neighborhood were not available. 
  
 Macedo said officers from several nearby sheriff's departments, including Tuolumne and San Joaquin, as well as the California Highway Patrol and the Angels Camp Police Department were helping in the manhunt. Searchers brought in dogs and search and rescue volunteers. 
  
 The slaying took place in a hilly, rural neighborhood that residents described as quiet and safe, with large homes typically built on one-acre lots. 
  
 They said most of the homeowners are retirees or workers who commute to jobs in the Northern San Joaquin Valley or Bay Area. Rancho Calaveras is about 30 miles east of Stockton. 
  
 Residents said they moved to Rancho Calaveras to escape the crime and violence that have become commonplace in their former hometowns. 
  
 Leila has a brother who is a sixth-grader at Jenny Lind, another brother who attends Toyon Middle School and a sister who attends Calaveras High School, said Mark Campbell, superintendent of the Calaveras Unified School District. 
  
 He said counselors and support staff will be at the three campuses today to help students and staff. There will be more law enforcement officers, especially at Jenny Lind and nearby bus stops. 
  
 "Our hearts and thoughts are with the Fowler family, and we are ready to provide whatever support we can to the parents and siblings now and in the future," Campbell said in a news release. 
  
 A candlelight vigil for Leila is planned for 7 p.m. Tuesday at Jenny Lind. Organizers asked people to bring a candle and a pink or purple ribbon, and to car-pool because of limited parking. 
  
 Twelve-year-old Kennedie Pekarek was among the friends who attended Sunday's news conference. 
  
 Kennedie said Leila's 12-year-old brother is her best friend. Kennedie, her mom, Amanda, and several others who knew Leila said she could be quiet and reserved with those she did not know. 
  
 But those who knew her were amazed by her bubbly personality and dazzling smile. In a note sent to Jenny Lind staff, the principal described Leila as compassionate, energetic and vibrant. 
  
 "She's got this huge smile," said one friend at the news conference. "You'll just melt." 
  
 Bee staff writer Kevin Valine can be reached at kvaline@modbee.com or (209) 578-2316. |||||
A: 
A tiny Northern California town was shut down over the weekend amid a manhunt for the murderer of an 8-year-old. Residents of Valley Springs—population 2,500—were told to lock their doors and watch for a man accused of stabbing Leila Fowler on Saturday afternoon, the AP reports. Police went door-to-door as they searched sheds and attics for the man. "This kind of thing does not happen here," a local mother told the Modesto Bee. Leila's brother, age 12, reportedly crossed paths with the man—described as white or Latino and wearing a black shirt and blue pants—in his house; after the attacker ran away, the boy found his sister. She was pronounced dead at a local hospital. Investigators reportedly found fingerprints and DNA in the girl's home, though it'll take as long as a week to get the results. Area schools are open today, notes Fox40.