WITH MORE.

JANELLE?

Reporter: 47-YEAR-OLD NEAL

WHITE HAS BEEN CHARGED WITH

SECOND DEGREE MURDER.

POLICE TELLING US THAT THE

LITTLE GIRL DID NOT SHOW UP FOR

SCHOOL YESTERDAY AND THAT HER

FATHER HAD SENT SOME CONCERNING

TEXT MESSAGES TO HER

BABYSITTER.

IT WAS HER BABYSITTER WHO MADE

THE DISTURBING DISCOVERY INSIDE

OF A FAMILY HOME.

THIS MORNING, GRIEF COUNSELORS

AT WARD ELEMENTARY SCHOOL IN

NEW ROCHELLE WHERE GABRIELLE

WHITE WAS IN SECOND GRADE.

SHE WAS JUST 7 YEARS OLD, DEAD,

ALLEGEDLY BY THE HANDS OF HER

OWN FATHER.

I CAN'T EVEN IMAGINE.

IT IS THE WORST THING EVER.

Reporter: POLICE ARE STILL

POSTED OUTSIDE OF THE FAMILY'S

TOWN HOME IN THE ARBOR GLEN

COMPLEX WHERE A BABYSITTER

WALKED INTO THE HORRIFIC SCENE

AROUND 3:00 P.M.

ON TUESDAY, FINDING GABRIELLE

DEAD IN HER BED, HER FATHER,

NEAL WHITE, BLEEDING FROM HIS

WRISTS.

SHE SAW MR. WHITE HAD CUT

WOUNDS TO HIS WRIST, SAW BLOOD

AND SHE SAW THAT, SHE CHECKED

ON -- SHE CHECKED ON THE GIRL

AND SAW SHE WASN'T MOVING AND

SHE CALLED US.

Reporter: POLICE SAY HIS

WIFE, MICHELLE HORD-WHITE, AN

EXECUTIVE IN FROM NBC FILED FOR

DIVORCE IN APRIL.

THEY HAD JOINT CUSTODY.

VERY FRIENDLY, CORDIAL

NEIGHBORS.

NO CLUE.

Reporter: THE COMMUNITY WAS

LEFT IN DISBELIEF.

GABRIELLE WAS A QUIET AND

FRIENDLY LITTLE GIRL.

HER LIFE TAKEN AWAY JUST AS IT

WAS BEGINNING.

ON A PERSONAL NOTE, THAT FOR

ALL FRIENDS OF THE FAMILY, THIS

IS DEVASTATING NEWS THAT WE

WILL LONG STRUGGLE TO

COMPREHEND.

Reporter: I SPOKE WITH THE

PASTOR OF THE LITTLE GIRL'S

MOTHER WHO WAS WITH THE MOTHER

WHEN SHE WENT TO THE SCENE.

HE SAYS SHE IS IN A STATE OF

SHOCK.

GABRIELLE WAS HER ONLY CHILD.

POLICE, THIS AFTERNOON, BELIEVE

SHE MAY HAVE DIED FROM

SUFFOCATION.