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A 16-year-old high school student pleaded guilty Wednesday to killing
his parents in a savage attack just before Christmas last year,
apparently because of their seemingly benign punishments, “like my dad
taking away my iPod and stuff.”
At the time of the crime and for months after, police and prosecutors refused to release the name of the arrested suspect, and they also would not identify what relationship he had with the victims. They withheld those details because of his age. Now, court records show, he is being charged in Norfolk Circuit Court as an adult.
Autopsy reports show on Dec. 19, Parker armed himself with eight kitchen knives, an aluminum bat and a crowbar and went upstairs to find his mother. She was stabbed repeatedly in the face and neck, and beat in the head so severely the medical examiner identified 25 separate wounds. She died on the floor near her bed.
Court records alleged the teen then went downstairs to wait for his father to come home.
According to an officer’s report, Parker first hit his father with the crowbar and then stabbed him in the chest and back. The suspect then left the house and the father was able to call 911, the officer said.
He told the first officers his son attacked him and killed his wife. Wayne Parker died later that night.
Before Wednesday, it wasn’t clear what could have triggered such a brutal attack. An honor roll student and only child, Parker had no record of mental illness.
“I just remember getting mad,” Parker told investigators, according to PIX11 sister station WTKR in Norfolk. “It’s all from my dad. All this stuff like my dad taking away my iPod and stuff.”
At the time of the crime and for months after, police and prosecutors refused to release the name of the arrested suspect, and they also would not identify what relationship he had with the victims. They withheld those details because of his age. Now, court records show, he is being charged in Norfolk Circuit Court as an adult.
Autopsy reports show on Dec. 19, Parker armed himself with eight kitchen knives, an aluminum bat and a crowbar and went upstairs to find his mother. She was stabbed repeatedly in the face and neck, and beat in the head so severely the medical examiner identified 25 separate wounds. She died on the floor near her bed.
Court records alleged the teen then went downstairs to wait for his father to come home.
According to an officer’s report, Parker first hit his father with the crowbar and then stabbed him in the chest and back. The suspect then left the house and the father was able to call 911, the officer said.
He told the first officers his son attacked him and killed his wife. Wayne Parker died later that night.
Before Wednesday, it wasn’t clear what could have triggered such a brutal attack. An honor roll student and only child, Parker had no record of mental illness.
“I just remember getting mad,” Parker told investigators, according to PIX11 sister station WTKR in Norfolk. “It’s all from my dad. All this stuff like my dad taking away my iPod and stuff.”
Such Anger for something so little!.... Disheartening.
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