Michigan mom kills son day before 18th birthday to fulfill death wish
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A Michigan mother allegedly told police she stabbed her 17-year-old son to death the day before his birthday because he didn’t want to turn 18.
Katie Austin Lee, 39, was charged with open murder and resisting and obstructing an officer after authorities found her with her son’s body in the apartment they shared in Holland, the local police department said.
The death of Austin Dean Pikaart was ruled a homicide.
Austin Dean Pikaart (GoFundMe.com)Lee herself had called in the emergency around 4:15 a.m. Friday, telling police that “she couldn’t get her son to stop breathing and had been trying for a while,” according to court records obtained by WOOD-TV.
Officersarrivedatwhatthey’dbeentoldwasadomesticviolencecalltofindLeewithbloodiedclothesandbrandishingalargekitchenknife,policesaidinastatement.Officersgrappledwithherwhensherefusedtodroptheknife,eventuallysubduingherwithtwoshotsfromataser.
Shelatertoldpolicethatshe’dbeentryingtogetofficerstokillher“soshecouldbewithherson,”reportedWOOD,citingcourtrecords.
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