‘9-year-old boy is charged with the murder off his mother’ whom he shot inside their home in Detroit, MI

Pauline Randol, 51, was found dead early Monday morning at her home in Fawn River Township having suffered a fatal gunshot wound

The gunman responsible, police say, was her nine-year-old son who Randol adopted from Indiana two years ago

Randol and her adoptive son were scheduled to meet with a mental health professional on Tuesday – the day after she was found dead

The victim’s daughter, 23-year-old Reagan Martin, said the boy’s mother was drug addict and he had a number of mental ‘scars’ from his childhood

Another of her daughters, Harley Martin, revealed that the 51-year-old had ‘told her doctor one time she was so scared she was raising the next serial killer’ 

Victim: Pauline Randol [photo] was found dead from a fatal gun-shot wound, early Monday morning at her home on Fawn River Township, in Detroit. She was shot allegedly by her nine-year-old addoptive son

A Detroit mother who was allegedly shot and killed by her adoptive son said to doctors she feared she was ‘raising the next serial killer’ just months before her death, grieving family members have revealed.
Pauline Randol, 51, was found dead early Monday morning at her home on Fawn River Township having suffered a fatal gun-shot wound.
The gunman responsible, police say, was her nine-year-old son who she adopted from Indiana three years ago.


Investigators believe the boy, who hasn’t been named because of his age, opened fire on Pauline with a rifle he found inside the home.
He has been charged with open murder as well as, felony firearms related charges, though it’s unclear whether he’ll be prosecuted as an adult or juvenile.

 

Police investigate the crie scene – where the home owner was shot allegedly by her adoptive son at their home [photo] in Detroit, Michigan on Monday morning

 

Randol and the boy were scheduled to meet with a mental health professional the day after she was found dead, as family members say she was growing increasingly concerned about the boy’s mental state.
One of Pauline Randol’s daughters, 23-year-old Reagan Martin, revealed that the boy’s mother was drug addict and he had a number of mental ‘scars’ from his childhood.
Another of her daughters, Harley Martin, 24, revealed that the 51-year-old had ‘told her doctor one time she was so scared she was raising the next serial killer’.

Harley, however, was adamant that the boy was not a ‘bad kid’ and said ‘this was not something he would have just done to be spiteful, to be mean.’

‘He loved his mom. I don’t want people to think he did not love his mom,’ she told 24 Hour News 8.

‘He had a of lot of mental health issues that were not being helped. He started on [new] medication last week. Who knows how that reacted?’

Randol adopted the boy about two years ago. harley said he came from a troubled situation, saying his biological mother used meth during her pregnancy.
Harley Martin added the boy has a history of mental health issues, that he had “just recently started snapping” and that he was on a new medication.
The shooting happened Monday at a home on Plumb School Road near US-12 in Fawn River Township, east of Sturgis.

Court records say Randol was shot with a rifle. Martin said her body was found in the living room.
“He’s traumatized by what he saw in there. That’s all he told my dad about was seeing that,” Harley said: “It’s going to mess him up for a really long time because he does not realize what he’s done.”

Randol [right], adopted the boy around two years ago

 

 

Reagan said her mother was aware of the boy’s mental health issues and troubled upbringing before she adopted him in February 2016.

She had expressed concerns about the boy’s mental health and that he might hurt someone, martin said: ‘But she took him in to care for him as her own,’ Reagan told the Detroit Free Press.
‘She had been trying to reach out for help by his family doctor… who blamed her for [these] issues.’

In court Tuesday, the boy asked where his mother was and the victim’s daghter Harley said ‘he doesn’t know what he did’.
‘He doesn’t understand why he can’t come home or anything,’ she continued. ‘He’s traumatized by what he saw in there. That’s all he told my dad about was seeing that.

It’s going to mess him up for a really long time because he does not realize what he’s done.’
Neighbor Joseph Lancaster said the boy had previously shot at his grandchildren with a bow and arrow.
The boy was a second-grader at Congress Elementary School in Sturgis. Another mother from the school claimed that the boy had threatened her 8-year-old daughter last year.
‘He told her that he wanted to get a knife and stab her and watch her die, and watch her mother cry,’ Alecia Pieronski recalled of a conversation between the suspect and her daughter in February 2018.

‘My want was to remove him from the school and protect the children. I do feel in my whole heart the teachers and principals did everything they could do.’

 

 

Premonition: Before her death, in a Facebook post Pauline Randol cryptically spoke about a child that was ‘missing skills’ and said she needed ‘support and understanding’  

It’s not clear how many times Pauline Randol was shot.
Her daughter Reagan added that she believed her mother would still be alive if she had received the psychiatric treatment she’d been seeking for her son.
She said her mother tried to reach out to various mental health services in St. Joseph County but their family’s insurance wouldn’t cover the medical costs.
Reagan Martin said her mother had expressed concerns about the boy’s mental health and that he might hurt someone.
“She had told her doctor one time she was so scared she was raising the next serial killer,” Martin said.
But no one in the family expected him to hurt Randol, she said.
She described her little brother as a “typical little boy,” who loves fishing and hunting.

 

It should never have happened’:  Alecia Pieronski [photo] claims the same boy told her eight-year-old daughter in school that ‘he wanted to get a knife and stab her and watch her die, and watch her mother cry’ in Feb, 2018. Pieronski does not believe ‘teachers and principals did everything they could do,’ to prevent the tragedy

 

‘She eventually got an appointment where she had to spend money out [of her] pocket, but that was supposed to be for Tuesday, and it was too late,’ Reagan said.
‘My mother’s death lays in the hands of people failing to educate in mental issues and failing to listen when helped is being begged for.’
Sheriff Bradley Balk says the youth was undergoing a psychiatric evaluation at a state-run juvenile facility on Tuesday.
Police were carrying out forensics interviews to determine the child’s state of mind.
‘Maybe this a wake-up call to other schools when you have that troubled child screaming for help to do something,’ Pieronski added.
In a Facebook post Randol cryptically spoke about a child that was ‘missing skills’ and said she needed ‘support and understanding’.
Sturgis Public Schools Superintendent Dr. Arthur Ebert said in a statement: ‘Our community has experienced a tragic event. As a district it is our goal to provide support to our students, staff, and the community.
‘We are limited in what we can share due to privacy laws and the sensitive nature of this tragedy. The St. Joseph County Sheriff’s Department is leading the investigation regarding this event that occurred outside of school, including the release of information about the investigation.’
Though neighbor Christy Miller described Pauline’s murder as ‘a sad situation’, another said they weren’t surprised to hear the boy had been arrested.
‘My wife and I both, when we heard that the woman was shot, we both looked at each other and said “I bet it was him”,’ Joseph Lancaster told FOX 17, on Wednesday.
‘The little boy, because I have grandkids. I have one the same age and I’ve got smaller ones. And he would stand in the tree line over there and point his BB gun at him and shoot at them.
‘It’s just crazy, scary. You know, he could have shot anybody around here.’