Authorities have charged a 17-year-old Florida teen with first-degree homicide of his mom a 12 months after he was accused and absolved of killing his father.

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Florida Teen Charged With Killing His Mother

PEOPLE stories that Catherine Griffith, 39, died after a stabbing in her mom’s residence in Auburndale, Florida residence on September 8, per the Polk County Sheriff’s Office.

The outlet says 17-year-old Collin Griffith claimed his mom died after falling on a knife throughout their argument.

At a press convention, Sheriff Grady Judd recounted Collin’s actual phrases from the 911 name.

“He said he and his mother had a very long fight, and she fell on the knife and… she is bleeding from the neck,” Sheriff Judd said.

Sheriff Judd stated Collin Griffith and Catherine lived in Charlotte County however had been staying at Catherine’s mom’s home.

Sheriff Judd defined that responding authorities discovered the Florida teen calm and composed regardless of noticing blood on him.

Per The Miami Herald, Sheriff Judd introduced on (Sept. 11) that Collin Griffith now faces a first-degree homicide cost for his mom’s dying. The sheriff’s workplace has requested the state lawyer’s workplace to prosecute him as an grownup.

Witnesses reported seeing Collin seize his mom by the hair and drag her inside the house whereas she cried for him to cease.

“His mother repeatedly pled with Collin to ‘let me go,’” the sheriff’s workplace alleged, primarily based on witnesses’ accounts.

More Details On Collin Griffith & What Happened To His Father

Sherriff Grady Judd additionally said that Collin Griffith has confronted accusations of killing a mother or father earlier than.

According to Tampa Bay’s MOR-TV, deputies from the Lincoln County Sheriff’s Office in Oklahoma acquired a name on February 14, 2023, from Collin Griffith, who reported that he had shot his father, Charles Griffith.

Collin claimed he and his father had argued, together with his father pulling a knife and chasing him by way of the home. Cornered within the bed room, Collin stated he grabbed a gun and shot his father twice, hitting him as soon as within the head and as soon as within the chest.

Per PEOPLE, Collin confronted first-degree homicide costs for his father’s dying, however authorities dropped the costs a month later, failing to “disprove of Collin’s claim of self-defense.”

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