Teenage boys arrested on murder charges after mother reports finding man's body in home

Q13 Fox / various ^ | June 1, 2012 | David Quinlan

[Stoat]

A 16-year-old boy and a 14-year-old believed to be his brother were arrested on first-degree murder charges Friday after their mother told police she found her sons standing over a young man's body in their Tacoma house when she came home.

The relationship, if any, between the unidentified victim and the teenage boys was not immediately disclosed. Tacoma police spokesman Mark Fulghum did not say how the man died, except to say there were "signs of trauma to the body."  

According to Fulghum, the boys' mother drove to a police substation and told police she arrived home at 847 E. 52nd Street at about 2 p.m. Friday and found a man's body inside her house. She said her two teenage sons were standing over the body in their home when she arrived.

Police, however, said when officers got to the house with the mother, the body was no longer in the home, but in a recycling bin in the back of the house. Police said the man died in the house, and his body was then moved to the bin.

"What were those boys doing moving the body?" asked neighbor Briann Hein. "Why was the body moved?"

The boys were arrested on first-degree murder charges, police said

[Slings and Arrows]

Just another sign that the Zombie Apocalypse is underway.

[Last Dakotan]

...instead it appears she, automatically, thought her boys were not innocent.

My guess is she probably knows them better than we do.

[BigCinBigD]

This is why we can’t have nice things!

[PAR35]

Just wait till your father gets home.

Doubt that's going to happen.

[FreedomPoster]

Well, it IS a truism that if someone is worth shooting, they are worth shooting more than once.

[Joe 6-pack]

Sounds like Warren Zevon's Exciteable Boy...

[BfloGuy]

the boys' mother drove to a police substation and told police she arrived home at 847 E. 52nd Street at about 2 p.m. Friday and found a man's body inside her house. She said her two teenage sons were standing over the body in their home when she arrived.

Jeez, I just hate it when that happens. I mean, you come home, and your kids have killed someone else.

[cripplecreek]

He ain’t excitable no more.

[presently no screen name]

You are correct!

[ApplegateRanch]

I mean, you come home, and your kids have killed someone else.

Beats the heck out of coming home, and your kids kill you.

[presently no screen name]

I think that’s the case here - she knows her boys. These type of kids are missing a conscience or something - something about death, crypts that they gravitate towards.

[Slings and Arrows]

Beats the heck out of coming home, and your kids kill you.

If i had a nickel for every time that's happened...

[Slings and Arrows]

Beats the heck out of coming home, and your kids kill you.

If I had a nickel for every time that's happened...

[Titan Magroyne]

I don’t care if it followed you home, you kids can’t keep that!

[Graybeard58]

The minerals in my body include a titanium knee and a steel shin as well as steel wire in my jaws.

I'm metal aged myself. Silver in my hair, gold in my teeth and lead in my a$$.