'Am I a criminal because I only killed 1 person?': Teen who had cellphone taken away beat wheelchair-bound mom to death with a hammer, police say

A Minnesota teen allegedly killed her mother with a hammer, past asked constabulary to bash a payment cheque due to the fact that she felt "regret."

Ramsey County prosecutors charged a 17-year-old girl with second-degree execution successful transportation with the decease of her 43-year-old mother, Georgina Lee Monk. According to a transgression ailment obtained by section quality outlet Pioneer Press, unit members astatine a time attraction programme that the miss attended became acrophobic astir the girl's behavior erstwhile she arrived connected the greeting of June 26.

According to reporting connected the complaint by section NBC affiliate KARE, the miss told unit members that idiosyncratic needed to "check connected her parent due to the fact that she felt regret." Staff members told constabulary that they believed the miss was spiraling and acting strangely.

Officers from the Maplewood Police Department responded to the flat gathering successful Maplewood, Minnesota, astatine 9:30 a.m. and recovered Monk dormant inside. She was successful her bed, connected her back, and had aggregate blunt-force injuries to her look and precocious body. Police said Monk was diabetic and suffering from an corruption successful her ft astatine the clip of her death, which caused her to usage a wheelchair.

After speaking with radical astatine the apartment, constabulary said the flat manager had been alert of an ongoing struggle betwixt the parent and daughter. He told constabulary that connected the nighttime of June 25, helium heard the 2 having an statement that was "more heated than usual."

Neighbors besides told constabulary astir the fights Monk had with her daughter. Police said 1 neighbour stated that Monk had reportedly taken her daughter's telephone away.

According to the complaint, surveillance video from the flat captured the teen leaving the gathering astatine 3:23 a.m. connected June 26 with a ample achromatic garbage bag. Two hours later, she was seen connected camera walking astir with a hammer earlier being seen again empty-handed. Around 7 a.m., she was seen walking to a adjacent autobus stop.

Police said that wrong the apartment, they recovered bloodstains passim the home, including connected the teen's chamber doorknob, successful her bedroom, and connected the toilet vessel lid. Bloody apparel were recovered successful a hamper successful her room. Police searched the dumpsters aft garbage pickup took place.

After constabulary took the teen into custody, she told them that she took the garbage retired due to the fact that that was 1 of her regular chores. When asked astir the hammer, she told constabulary that she was asked by Monk to enactment it backmost successful the garage. According to the complaint, the teen said she kept the hammer successful the location for "protection."

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As the interrogation progressed, constabulary said the teen admitted that she struggled with her intelligence wellness and was disquieted that she was "crazy." Police said she claimed to perceive "whispers" and "a thought came into her caput to, 'Get escaped of anybody who wounded you successful your beingness oregon anybody who dared to wounded you.'" She past allegedly admitted that she deed her parent successful the caput doubly with the hammer. According to the complaint, she said the alleged sidesplitting was "not wholly planned."

Police said the teen asked a detective, "Am I a transgression due to the fact that I lone killed 1 person?"

According to the complaint, the teen "tried to spell backmost to sleep" aft the alleged killing, but was unable. She continued to "act similar everything was normal" and called her boyfriend. The miss was arrested pursuing the interrogation and booked into jail.

Police said the teen called her fellow portion successful custody and told him, "It wasn't conscionable rage, I conscionable couldn't grip it nary more. I couldn't hold different twelvemonth of each the criticisms, and each the manipulations, the intelligence and affectional abuse. I conscionable couldn't, it was excessively much."

The teen was charged with second-degree execution and remains successful custody. Since the fishy is simply a juvenile, tribunal accusation was not made publically available.