bloodrayne
10-12-2004, 12:09 AM
12-Year-Old Girl Accused Of Shooting Mother After Being Grounded
DALLAS -- A 12-year-old girl upset over being grounded is accused of shooting her mother to death early Sunday in her bed.
The girl's 10-year-old brother called police about 1 a.m. after finding his mother, 48-year-old Elvira Marion Walton, shot.
The 12-year-old who was being detained at the Henry Wade Juvenile Justice Center.
"Apparently the motive is because the daughter was upset that the mother disciplined her," Dallas police Sgt. Gary Kirkpatrick, homicide unit supervisor, said in Monday editions of The Dallas Morning News.
Walton had six children and lived in a converted garage used as the family home. An older daughter, 22-year-old Thanica Derrick, said her mother had been having trouble with the 12-year-old.
"She is your average 12-year-old, hormones and everything," Derrick said. "There's nothing that bad to make her do that to my mama. She had been breaking out of the house and not going to school."
Neighbor Lashonda Washington said the 12-year-old regularly stayed out late with neighborhood boys.
"She was always down the street," Washington said. "Her mom was always going down the street at night, telling her it was time to come home."
Derrick is taking care of her 10-year-old half-brother.
DALLAS -- A 12-year-old girl upset over being grounded is accused of shooting her mother to death early Sunday in her bed.
The girl's 10-year-old brother called police about 1 a.m. after finding his mother, 48-year-old Elvira Marion Walton, shot.
The 12-year-old who was being detained at the Henry Wade Juvenile Justice Center.
"Apparently the motive is because the daughter was upset that the mother disciplined her," Dallas police Sgt. Gary Kirkpatrick, homicide unit supervisor, said in Monday editions of The Dallas Morning News.
Walton had six children and lived in a converted garage used as the family home. An older daughter, 22-year-old Thanica Derrick, said her mother had been having trouble with the 12-year-old.
"She is your average 12-year-old, hormones and everything," Derrick said. "There's nothing that bad to make her do that to my mama. She had been breaking out of the house and not going to school."
Neighbor Lashonda Washington said the 12-year-old regularly stayed out late with neighborhood boys.
"She was always down the street," Washington said. "Her mom was always going down the street at night, telling her it was time to come home."
Derrick is taking care of her 10-year-old half-brother.