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‘Psychopath’ Florida teen arrested for stabbing mother to death, a year after she bailed him out for shooting his father, as cops ask DA to charge Colin Griffith, 17, as an adult

&Tab;&Tab;<div class&equals;"wpcnt">&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<div class&equals;"wpa">&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<span class&equals;"wpa-about">Advertisements<&sol;span>&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<div class&equals;"u top&lowbar;amp">&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<amp-ad width&equals;"300" height&equals;"265"&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab; type&equals;"pubmine"&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab; data-siteid&equals;"109460728"&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab; data-section&equals;"1">&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;<&sol;amp-ad>&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<&sol;div>&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<&sol;div>&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;<&sol;div>&NewLine;<p class&equals;"has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-d2f2dbd6fba0bdc9084eaaf69d3919da" style&equals;"color&colon;&num;2e2424&semi;font-size&colon;14px"><strong>&&num;8216&semi;Psychopath&&num;8217&semi; teen arrested Sunday in Polk County&comma; Florida&comma; for stabbing his mother to death a year after she bailed him out after fatally shooting his dad <&sol;strong><&sol;p>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<p class&equals;"has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-b4005afcb9d97af1c0b861618ce146c8" style&equals;"color&colon;&num;2e2424&semi;font-size&colon;14px"><strong>Polk County Sheriff&&num;8217&semi;s Office is asking the State Attorney to charge Collin Griffith&comma; 17&comma; as an adult after he killed his mother Catherine Griffith&comma; 39 <&sol;strong><&sol;p>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<p class&equals;"has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-f3cd62ea663b5a08dcb3b9bbb9b282fb" style&equals;"color&colon;&num;2e2424&semi;font-size&colon;14px"><strong>Collin Griffith is accused of killing his mom a year after escaping a murder charge over the death of Charles Robert Griffith&comma; 43&comma; by claiming self-defense <&sol;strong><&sol;p>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<p class&equals;"has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-235d4609c63be431cc282207452a0dcf" style&equals;"color&colon;&num;2e2424&semi;font-size&colon;14px"><strong>School teacher Catherine Griffith paid  &dollar;50&comma;000 bond to secure the release of her son&comma; but he&&num;8217&semi;d warned deputies he would kill her if forced to live with her <&sol;strong><&sol;p>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<p class&equals;"has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-a154869c0ad317ed7c60c27775cf7043" style&equals;"color&colon;&num;2e2424&semi;font-size&colon;14px"><strong>In November 2023&comma; he was arrested on domestic violence charges after kicking his mother to the ground when she tried to restrict his use of video games&period; <&sol;strong><&sol;p>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<p class&equals;"has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-b2e65f131e9bad877710148e28eae2f9" style&equals;"color&colon;&num;2e2424&semi;font-size&colon;14px"><strong>On Sunday Sept&period; 14&comma; Collin called police to say his mother had &&num;8216&semi;fallen&&num;8217&semi; on his knife during an argument The ME said Catherine had been stabbed twice in the neck&comma; &&num;8216&semi;so hard that the knife went through&&num;8217&semi;<&sol;strong><&sol;p>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<figure class&equals;"wp-block-image size-full is-resized"><img src&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;konniemoments&period;com&sol;wp-content&sol;uploads&sol;2024&sol;09&sol;Catherine-Griffith-with-her-son-Collin-Griffith-1&period;png" alt&equals;"" class&equals;"wp-image-468276" style&equals;"width&colon;842px&semi;height&colon;auto"&sol;><&sol;figure>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<p class&equals;"has-small-font-size"><strong>Catherine Griffith&lbrack;left&rsqb;&comma; paid &dollar;50&comma;000 bond a year ago&comma; to secure the release of her son Collin&comma; 17&period; However&comma; the teen had warned deputies he would kill his mom if forced to live with her&period; On Sunday he called police to say his she had &&num;8216&semi;fallen&&num;8217&semi; on his knife during an argument<&sol;strong><&sol;p>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<p>The shocking crimes attributed to 17-year-old Collin Griffith&comma; who has been described as a &&num;8216&semi;psychopath&comma;&&num;8217&semi; were revealed yesterday by Sheriffs in Florida&&num;8217&semi;s Polk County&period; Over the weekend the teenager stabbed his mother to death&comma; a year after she bailed him out for fatally shooting his father&comma; Charles Robert Griffith&period; <br>On the evening of Sunday September7&comma; Collin Griffith called police to say his mother Catherine had &&num;8216&semi;fallen&&num;8217&semi; on his knife during an argument&period; <br>However&comma; witnesses reported seeing him dragging his mom out of the house by her hair two hours earlier&period; <br>The medical examiner found that 39-year-old Catherine Griffith had been stabbed twice in the neck&period;<br>A year ago&comma; Catherine paid &dollar;50&comma;000 to bail her son out of jail after he shot his father dead&period; <br>Charges against Colin were dropped after he argued that he killed his father in self-defense&period;  <br>Recounting the actions of the teen on Wednesday&comma; county Sheriff&comma; Grady Judd&comma; said &&num;8216&semi;When you look at this&comma; you see a kid&period; When I look at him I see a psychopath&&num;8217&semi;&period; <br>&&num;8216&semi;Everybody that should be special to him in his life is dead when they cross him&period;&&num;8217&semi; <&sol;p>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<figure class&equals;"wp-block-image size-full is-resized"><img src&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;konniemoments&period;com&sol;wp-content&sol;uploads&sol;2024&sol;09&sol;Collin-Griffith-2&period;png" alt&equals;"" class&equals;"wp-image-468277" style&equals;"width&colon;837px&semi;height&colon;auto"&sol;><&sol;figure>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<p class&equals;"has-small-font-size"><strong>Polk County Sheriff&&num;8217&semi;s Office is asking the State Attorney to charge Collin Griffith&comma; 17&comma; as an adult after he killed his mother &&num;8211&semi; a year after escaping a murder charge over his father&&num;8217&semi;s death by claiming &&num;8216&semi;self-defense&&num;8217&semi;<&sol;strong><&sol;p>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<p>Colin claimed that his 43-year-old dad Charles Robert Griffith&comma; had pulled a knife on him before chasing and cornering him at the remote farmstead in Lincoln County&comma; Oklahoma&comma; on Valentine&&num;8217&semi;s Day 2023&period;<br>Prosecutors &&num;8216&semi;could not disprove Colin&&num;8217&semi;s assertion of self-defense&comma;&&num;8217&semi; and he was released after his mother posted bond of &dollar;50&comma;000&period;<br>However&comma; six months later the teenager was back in custody under Florida&&num;8217&semi;s Baker Act after threatening to kill himself or his mother by shooting or stabbing her&period;<br>In November last year he was arrested on domestic violence charges after kicking his mother to the ground when she tried to restrict his use of video games&period;<br>Colin&&num;8217&semi;s attempt to fight the domestic violence charge&comma; by again claiming self-defense failed because his grandmother who witnessed the assault corroborated Catherine Griffith&&num;8217&semi;s account&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<figure class&equals;"wp-block-image size-full is-resized"><img src&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;konniemoments&period;com&sol;wp-content&sol;uploads&sol;2024&sol;09&sol;Catherine-Griffith-1&period;png" alt&equals;"" class&equals;"wp-image-468283" style&equals;"width&colon;840px&semi;height&colon;auto"&sol;><&sol;figure>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<p class&equals;"has-small-font-size"><strong>Catherine Griffith &lbrack;photo&rsqb;&comma; a 39-year-old popular teacher with the Florida Virtual School died on Sunday after her son &&num;8216&semi;stabbed his mother in the neck so hard that the knife went all the way through&&num;8217&semi;&comma; police said <&sol;strong><&sol;p>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<p>In February 2024&comma; Colin ran away from his mother&&num;8217&semi;s house in Charlotte County&comma; to stay with his grandmother&period;<br>Despite telling deputies &&num;8216&semi;I will kill my mother&&num;8217&semi; rather than be reunited with&comma; they handed him to Florida&&num;8217&semi;s Department for Children and Families who returned him to the home in Charlotte County&comma; a year to the day after his father was killed&period;<br>Police on Wednesday released a series of chilling text messages Catherine sent in the hours before her death begging a neighbor for help&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<div class&equals;"wp-block-group is-vertical is-layout-flex wp-container-core-group-is-layout-8cf370e7 wp-block-group-is-layout-flex">&NewLine;<figure class&equals;"wp-block-image size-full is-resized"><img src&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;konniemoments&period;com&sol;wp-content&sol;uploads&sol;2024&sol;09&sol;Catherine-Griffiths-text-1&period;png" alt&equals;"" class&equals;"wp-image-468284" style&equals;"width&colon;788px&semi;height&colon;auto"&sol;><&sol;figure>&NewLine;<&sol;div>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<div class&equals;"wp-block-group is-vertical is-layout-flex wp-container-core-group-is-layout-8cf370e7 wp-block-group-is-layout-flex">&NewLine;<figure class&equals;"wp-block-image size-full is-resized"><img src&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;konniemoments&period;com&sol;wp-content&sol;uploads&sol;2024&sol;09&sol;Catherine-Griffiths-text-2&period;png" alt&equals;"" class&equals;"wp-image-468285" style&equals;"width&colon;792px&semi;height&colon;auto"&sol;><&sol;figure>&NewLine;<&sol;div>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<p class&equals;"has-small-font-size"><strong>&&num;8216&semi;Collin just hates me and I&&num;8217&semi;m tired of this crap&period;&&num;8217&semi; Police released Catherine Griffith&&num;8217&semi;s text exchange with a friend&comma; in the hours before her death&comma; clearly indicating that she feared for her life<&sol;strong><&sol;p>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<p>&&num;8216&semi;Please do not let Collin or the police into my home&period; I&&num;8217&semi;m not opening my door&comma;&&num;8217&semi; she wrote in one&period; <br>&&num;8216&semi;Collin just hates me and I&&num;8217&semi;m tired of this crap&period;&&num;8217&semi;<br>&&num;8216&semi;Where are you and how am I going to stop him&quest;&&num;8217&semi; the neighbor replied&period;<br>&&num;8216&semi;Don&&num;8217&semi;t give them the keys&comma;&&num;8217&semi; Catherine responded&period; &&num;8216&semi;I&&num;8217&semi;m home in my room&period;&&num;8217&semi;<br>On the day of her death she told the neighbor&colon; &&num;8216&semi;I&&num;8217&semi;m meeting with his probation officer Monday morning if he doesn&&num;8217&semi;t come home today by ten&period; He knows the time and deadline&period;<br>&&num;8216&semi;He&&num;8217&semi;s choosing to skip it and hide out at my mom&&num;8217&semi;s house in Polk county which is also a violation&period;&&num;8217&semi;<br>In her final text she wrote&colon; &&num;8216&semi;He won&&num;8217&semi;t listen I am going to drive to get him and if he doesn&&num;8217&semi;t get in the car then Polk county can deal with him&period;&&num;8217&semi;<&sol;p>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<figure class&equals;"wp-block-image size-full is-resized"><img src&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;konniemoments&period;com&sol;wp-content&sol;uploads&sol;2024&sol;09&sol;Grady-Judd-1&period;png" alt&equals;"" class&equals;"wp-image-468275" style&equals;"width&colon;838px&semi;height&colon;auto"&sol;><&sol;figure>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<p class&equals;"has-small-font-size"><strong>Leading to her murder&comma; Catherine Griffith was leaving in fear of her son &&num;8211&semi; &&num;8216&semi;When you look at this&comma; you see a kid&period; When I look at him I see a psychopath&comma;&&num;8217&semi; Polk County Sheriff Grady Judd told a press conference on Wednesday&period; The Sheriff&&num;8217&semi;s Office is asking the State Attorney to charge the teen as an adult<&sol;strong><&sol;p>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<p>Griffith&&num;8217&semi;s grandmother was not at home when his mother arrived at 4pm on Sunday and the pair began to argue&period;<br>By 6&period;30pm police were on the way after Griffith called to say his mother had injured herself&comma; and showed &&num;8216&semi;zero remorse&&num;8217&semi; when the officers arrived&period;<br>&&num;8216&semi;He looked the deputy in the eye and said&colon; &&num;8216&semi;I know my rights&comma; I want an attorney&&num;8217&semi;&comma;&&num;8217&semi; Judd told reporters&period;<br>&&num;8216&semi;He claimed that during this argument&comma; his mother lunged at him with a knife&comma; and fell on it&comma; resulting in a deep stab wound to her neck&period;<br>&&num;8216&semi;The medical examiner said it&&num;8217&semi;s just not reasonable or plausible that she died the way that he said she did&period; &&num;8216&semi;It just didn&&num;8217&semi;t happen&period;&&num;8217&semi;<&sol;p>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<figure class&equals;"wp-block-image size-full is-resized"><img src&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;konniemoments&period;com&sol;wp-content&sol;uploads&sol;2024&sol;09&sol;Charles-Robert-Griffiths-tombstone-1&period;png" alt&equals;"" class&equals;"wp-image-468282" style&equals;"width&colon;803px&semi;height&colon;auto"&sol;><&sol;figure>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<p class&equals;"has-small-font-size"><strong>A murder charge against Collin Griffith was dropped a month after he shot dad Charles Griffith in the head and chest&comma; after the 17-year-old claimed to be acting in self-defense&period; A year later&comma; he has again murdered his mom who stood by him in the earlier case<&sol;strong><&sol;p>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<p>Colin Griffith was arrested for murder and the Polk County Sheriff&&num;8217&semi;s Office is asking the State Attorney to charge him as an adult in Florida&period; In the aftermath&comma; the Oklahoma District Attorney&&num;8217&semi;s Office has also said it is now examining whether to charge him again over his father&&num;8217&semi;s death&period;<br>&&num;8216&semi;If Oklahoma had been able to act&comma; Catherine would be alive and well today&comma;&&num;8217&semi; Judd said&period;<br>&&num;8216&semi;But because she took him in and tried to do like a mother should do and took care of him&comma; she&&num;8217&semi;s now dead&period;<br>&&num;8216&semi;He&&num;8217&semi;s already&comma; at 17 years of age&comma; shot and killed his father and got away with it&comma; and stabbed his mother in the neck so hard that the knife went all the way through&period;<br>&&num;8216&semi;Now he&&num;8217&semi;s killed two people&comma; and killed his mother and father&comma; and I can assure you based upon his conduct&comma; had he gone to live with his grandmother at the end of this&comma; and she had crossed him&comma; she would be next&period;&&num;8217&semi;<&sol;p>&NewLine;

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