Three Texas teens were taken into police custody after they allegedly tried to kill their mother when she shut off the WiFi.
Texas teens turn on mom
Harris County Sheriff’s deputies responded to an emergency call late Sunday night at a residence, where they encountered a violent altercation between family members.
When they arrived, deputies discovered a 39-year-old woman who had been attacked with knives and bricks as she fled her home.
Investigators reported that the assault had been carried out by the victim’s own teenage daughters, who are 14, 15, and 16 years old.
According to law enforcement officials, the Texas teens were driven homicidal after their mother disabled the WiFi in their home.
The situation got dicey when all three terrible teens allegedly armed themselves with kitchen knives and pursued their mother throughout the house and onto the street.
“Because the mother turned off the WiFi, all three grabbed kitchen knives and chased her throughout the house and into the street, attempting to stab her,” Sheriff Ed Gonzalez stated.
During the attack, the woman was hit with a brick, while her mother, the girls’ grandmother, was also injured as she tried to shield her daughter from harm. Fortunately, neither suffered life-threatening injuries.
Texas teens booked for assault
Authorities arrested the three sisters, charging them with aggravated assault with a deadly weapon. They have since been booked into the Harris County Juvenile Detention Center.
Officials also disclosed that this was not the first time law enforcement had been called to the residence.
According to records, deputies had responded to the home twice earlier this year—once for a report of a runaway juvenile and another time for a disturbance related to a physical altercation between the girls.
Neighbors in the area reported that the household has had a troubled history.
“They’re known for that in this neighborhood. There’s always cops around that house,” an unnamed neighbor told Fox 26.
Another community member described the incident as alarming.
“I think that’s so crazy. I mean, it just tells how unstable that family is, and it’s very sad for them,” the neighbor said.
Meanwhile, in a separate incident in New Mexico, a 13-year-old boy is facing murder charges after police say he and several other juveniles deliberately ran over a bicyclist in a hit-and-run that they decided to record on video.
The victim, 63-year-old Scott Habermehl, was commuting to work on the morning of May 29, 2024, when he was fatally, and seemingly deliberately run down by the vehicle.
According to investigators, no eyewitnesses saw the vehicle take off from the scene, and authorities were initially unable to locate any surveillance footage capturing the event.
Video evidence leads police to young alleged killers
The case took a significant turn when a video allegedly recorded by the suspects inside the car surfaced on social media.
Albuquerque Police Chief Harold Medina described the footage as “extremely disturbing.”
“You hear the discussion of, they see the guy on the bike, and they make the decision that they’re going to strike him, they’re just going to bump him, and they murdered this individual,” Medina stated in a press briefing.
“We’ve all looked at it, and it is just horrific that this could be done to another human being,” he added.
According to police, the video records the bicyclist being run down and captures a conversation between the young suspects.
“Just bump him, brah,” a 15-year-old passenger is heard saying to the 13-year-old driver.
“Like bump him?” the driver asks.
“Yeah, just bump him. Go like 15 … 20 [mph],” the 15-year-old in the back seat replies, authorities say.
The suspect then allegedly gunned it toward Habermehl, who was riding in a designated bike lane on his way to work at Sandia National Laboratory.
Right before the collision, the 11-year-old front-seat passenger allegedly brandished a handgun and then laughed as they struck the cyclist.
Investigators say the impact caused significant damage, with loud noises of metal being crushed as Habermehl was hit, thrown onto the vehicle, and then onto the pavement.
The suspects then fled the scene as Habermehl lay on the pavement dying.
For months, police struggled to identify any suspects in the callous crime. It wasn’t until an anonymous tip led detectives to an Instagram account where the video had been posted that authorities made a breakthrough.
A middle school principal later alerted law enforcement after a student came forward, saying they had seen the footage.
Investigators had already confiscated the 13-year-old and 11-year-old’s phones as part of an unrelated case.
When they obtained search warrants for the phones, police uncovered digital evidence, including the video allegedly capturing the fatal incident.
Authorities charged the two older boys with open murder, conspiracy to commit murder, fleeing the scene of an accident resulting in death, and unlawful possession of a firearm by a minor.
Due to his age, the 11-year-old suspect is ineligible for a murder charge. Prosecutors are still determining what legal action to take against him.
Police are actively searching for the 15-year-old suspect facing murder charges and a 12-year-old boy linked to the case.
