Mother 'traumatized' after fatally stabbing daughter's boyfriend reportedly hiding in closet

NOLA.com ^ | April 25, 2013 | Naomi Martin

[BBell]

A 35-year-old single mother came home from her evening criminal justice classes Wednesday about 7:15 p.m. and was startled to see a stranger wearing a hoodie inside her walk-in closet, according to statements she later told police and her family members. Panicked, the woman reportedly grabbed a knife from under her pillow, and stabbed the man several times.

The man died within the hour at a local hospital. The Orleans Parish coroner's office on Thursday identified him as Tyrone Scott, 17.

The family believes Scott hid in the closet at the house in the 3900 block of Gibson Street in Gentilly because he was secretly seeing the woman's underage daughter, who is 15, according to a family member.

The relative requested anonymity out of fear of retaliation; aside from the girl, none of the family members knew Scott, he said. The girl has been too distraught to give much information, he said.

"As far as we know, he was an extremely good kid," the relative said, "and it was just an unfortunate accident. We are hurting for their loss. Everybody's suffering."

The mother was taken to NOPD headquarters for questioning and was released. Homicide detectives are investigating the case to determine whether it will be deemed justifiable, NOPD spokesman Frank Robertson III said.

"It was a terrible incident and we regret that it happened," said George Blair, an attorney for the woman.

The woman's relative said she was hysterically crying Wednesday night and Thursday. "She is traumatized. She will never recover from this," he said. "We weren't raised to take people's lives. It was not intentional. She felt she had to defend herself and she did."

Efforts to reach Scott's family were not immediately successful. The woman's family said they would like to talk to Scott's family. "Our hearts really

[Tax-chick]

Currently, she’s a firearms instructor at the Coast Guard’s training base in Cape May, NJ. However, when she goes back to sea, as she expects to next year, I’ll add you to the “Gunner Anoreth ping list.” She has a great future as a travel journalist ;-).

[GSD Lover]

Seventeen? He could be in eleventh grade, maybe twelfth. Fifteen? She could be in tenth grade.

Heck, when I was a sophomore, my parents let me date seniors that they approved of.

Imo, this is a typical high school romance with very, very tragic results. I feel sorry for both families involved.

[kabumpo]

She was in fact 15, he was 25 - she changed the age to 17 in the Little House book - and she was a responsible adult because she was allowed, naturally, to become one. Women are inherently ready to get married at that age - It is our current society that is wrong for infantilizing women

[Bigg Red]

“As far as we know, he was an extremely good kid,”

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Extremely good kids don’t hide in other people’s closets. Not saying he deserved death, of course.

I hope the sneaky 15-year-old daughter learned a lesson.

[presently no screen name]

I wasn’t posting to you, smart ass.

You were posting to the world, smart ass. This is not your private email. Get to know the difference.

[Bigg Red]

Is that a real song or just a joke?

[Bigg Red]

She keeps a knife under her pillow? Hmmm.

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Not so unusual for a single woman.

[Bigg Red]

A high school friend of mine was found naked hiding in a bedroom closet by his girlfriend’s mother. She was mad but she did not stab him.

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She should have.

[Tax-chick]

she changed the age to 17 in the Little House book

I didn't know that.

Women are inherently ready to get married at that age

I disagree. In the early 19th century, the average age of puberty was 16+. (It may have had something to do with the Little Ice Age.) Even if girls were socially competent at that age, one can hardly argue that a prepubescent youth is "inherently ready to get married."

[GSD Lover]

We infantalize women AND men these days.

However, in no way should a sixteen or seventeen year old girl be ready for marriage these days. A hundred years ago, young people were restrained by the small communities they lived in, by Grandma down the street, Aunt Jane and Uncle Harry around the corner.

These days, young people need to finish their education and will frequently live far away from their families and even good Christian kids can mess up if sent far from home with no oversight. Thank God we aren’t sending them out at fifteen! :(

[Albion Wilde]

"Duck Dynasty"
If that's something from television, I haven't had one here in over a decade.

It is -- it's a reality show about a Louisiana family of manly men and their wives and children, whose successful business is large-scale manufacturing of duck calls and other hunting paraphernalia. They are a close traditional family -- southern Scots-Irish hilarious witty characters -- and they are shown saying grace together over a meal of cooked game at the end of every episode.

One of the episodes concerned when the lead guy's 15-year-old daughter wanted to go on a date. His brother, who is huge, stood over Willie and said, "You need to take a gun in one hand and your Bible in the other, and stand over him like this." Willie is also huge, but he was intimidated by the body language -- it was a hoot. They ended up taking the boy shooting with them, and made a number of remarks about shooting aimed at warning the kid to stay in line. The kid was only 15, but he saw a snake in the swamp and demonstrated that he was already a crack shot himself -- blam!

[Albion Wilde]

Ping to post 100.

[JRandomFreeper]

I've certainly got the beard for it.

/johnny

[EEGator]

Go f@$# yourself asshole.

[presently no screen name]

You said that to the world and that includes you! Nice boomerang, idiot!

[JimRed]

When I was an 18 year old sailor and my ship was in the Bethlehem Steel shipyard in Baltimore for a few months of upgrades, I met a cute young girl and took her out a couple of times (ice cream parlor, movies, visit to the ship). She took me home to meet her mom, older sister and mom’s boyfriend. We all got along nicely.

A couple of weeks later she let slip that she was THIRTEEN! Needless to say, I ended the relationship in self-defense!

[Albion Wilde]

You can watch episodes online — google Duck Dynasty. IMO, the earlier episodes are the best.

[kabumpo]

I don’t know where you got that puberty statistic. Many women got married at 14 and had children at 15, 16.

[kabumpo]

You are making a big generalization about moving away, etc. Many people, even in urban areas, don’t go far from their neighborhoods.
People could be ready younger. Marketing of consumer goods as well as the unions forced a prolonged adolescence that is a form of mental and emotional torture for young people, who are biologically ready for procreation in their teens, but are made to hold back for a decade or more. It’s unnatural.

[LoneRangerMassachusetts]

Exactly. But she is 15 and too young to be in charge of her sex life. They will fall in love and try to do these things and we must attempt to stop them. It didn’t always work throughout history or now.

I've been told all my life that girls are more mature than boys by three years. I never heard the Nags from NOW dispute that. So the "too young' bit doesn't fly here.