Bobby Gonzales was fifteen years old when he would fatally shoot his girlfriends mother and severely injure her father. According to court documents Bobby Gonzales was dating Krissi Lynn Caldwell and she would tell him that she was being sexually abused by her father and that her mother would not stop the abuse. Bobby would enter the Texas home and shoot both of her parents who were sleeping in their bed, killing the mother and severely injuring her father.
Bobby would later learn that Krissi Lynn Caldwell was lying about the abuse. The teen killer was sentenced to life in prison. Krissi Lynn Caldwell also received a life sentence
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SID Number:04687658
TDCJ Number:00647502
Name:GONZALES,ROBERT ANTHONY
Race:H
Gender:M
DOB:1976-07-26
Maximum Sentence Date:LIFE SENTENCE
Current Facility:ALFRED HUGHES
Projected Release Date:LIFE SENTENCE
Parole Eligibility Date:2027-04-02
Offender Visitation Eligible:YES
Krissi Caldwell 2023 Information
SID Number: 04725341
TDCJ Number: 00644824
Name: CALDWELL,KRISSI LYNN
Race: W
Gender: F
DOB: 1975-10-02
Maximum Sentence Date: LIFE SENTENCE
Current Facility: HOBBY
Projected Release Date: LIFE SENTENCE
Parole Eligibility Date: 2027-06-29
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Appellant was romantically involved with Krissi Caldwell, the teenage daughter of the deceased. The deceased and her husband disapproved of their daughter’s relationship with appellant and forbade Krissi to see appellant. Mr. Caldwell testified that Krissi was not permitted to invite appellant over to the Caldwells’ residence and that neither he nor the deceased ever consented to allow appellant to be in their home. As a result of these restrictions, Krissi’s relationship with her parents grew increasingly strained. This tension eventually culminated into Krissi’s plan to have appellant murder her parents.
One evening, after her parents had gone to sleep, Krissi let appellant into the house. Krissi gave appellant a 9mm automatic pistol she had taken from her father’s nightstand. Armed with the gun, appellant entered the Caldwells’ bedroom and fired five or six shots into both of the Caldwells. Mr. Caldwell survived the attack, but Mrs. Caldwell died from multiple gunshot wounds.
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A Texas jury Friday sentenced a 17-year-old girl to life in prison for soliciting the murders of her parents because they disapproved of her dating a boy of another race.
Jurors deliberated for more than three hours before returning the verdict against Krissi Lynn Caldwell of Frisco, a small town near Dallas.
Prosecutors said she and her boyfriend, Robert Anthony Gonzales, 16, conspired to kill her mother, Rosalyn Caldwell, 41, and father, Vernon Caldwell, 42. Gonzales will be tried later for murder.
The girl, with tears in her eyes, stood with her attorney before Judge John Roach when he read the sentence. The same jury returned the guilty verdict Thursday afte four hours of deliberation.
In final arguments, prosecutor Bill Schultz pointed at Caldwell and told the jury, ‘You’re looking at somebody who has absolutely no regard for human life.’ He said she would do anything to get her way.
Defense attorney Don McDermott called no witnesses and declined to present a defense.
McDermott charged in his closing argument that the state failed to prove its case against Caldwell, and placed all the blame on Gonzales. McDermott said, ‘He planned it, and he carried it out.
Authorities said a gunman slipped into the Caldwell home at Frisco during the night of March 6 and opened fire on the Caldwells as they slept. Mrs. Caldwell was killed, Mr. Caldwell was critically wounded.
During a hearing in May to certify Gonzales for trial as adult, a witness testified that Gonzales wanted to kill the Caldwells because they disapproved of inter-racial dating. Bobby Gonzales is Hispanic; Krissi Caldwell is white.
Gonzales, also of Frisco, will be tried later on charges of capital murder, soliciation of capital murder and attempted capital murder. He is suspected of firing the gun during the attack.
Jacob Evans who also goes by Jake Evans was seventeen years old when he murdered his mother and sister. According to court documents Jacob Evans would call 911 and tell the operator that he had just shot and killed his mother and sister in their Texas home. When asked why he would murder them he could not give a reason. At trial this teen killer would at first declared not mentally competent however this would later change. After being convicted on both murders Jake Evans would be sentenced to forty five years in prison.
Jacob Evans 2023 Information
SID Number: 50153444
TDCJ Number: 01997058
Name: EVANS,JACOB RYAN
Race: W
Gender: M
DOB: 1995-05-22
Maximum Sentence Date: 2057-10-04
Current Facility: DARRINGTON
Projected Release Date: 2057-10-04
Parole Eligibility Date: 2035-04-05
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A teen who fatally shot his mother and 15-year-old sister inside their Parker County home was sentenced to 45 years in prison Thursday in a plea agreement with prosecutors.
Jacob Ryan “Jake” Evans, who was 17 at the time of the 2012 slayings, pleaded guilty to two counts of murder. As part of the plea, the state waived a capital murder charge.
Evans, who turns 20 in May, must serve at least half his sentence before becoming eligible for parole. He will be given credit for the 21/2 years he has been held in jail or in a state mental hospital while awaiting trial.
Evans had been ordered to a state mental hospital in October after he was ruled incompetent to stand trial. On Monday, a competency evaluation stating that Evans had been restored to competency was filed in court and Thursday’s plea hearing was scheduled.
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A judge in Texas has released a teenage murder suspect’s confession, in which he says the 2007 film “Halloween,” by heavy metal musician and film director Rob Zombie, inspired him in the slaying of his mother and sister.
“While watching it I was amazed at how at ease the boy was during the murders and how little remorse he had afterword [sic]. I was thinking to myself it would be the same for me when I kill someone,” 17-year-old Jake Evans wrote in his confession, according to a copy released on Thursday by Parker County Judge Graham Quisenberry.
According to police, Jake Evans killed his 48-year-old mother, Jamie Evans, and his 15-year-old sister, Mallory, inside their upscale Aledo home Oct. 3, 2012. In a four-page written confession police said that Evans wrote hours after his arrest, he said he watched “Halloween” three times that week.
The 2007 film, which is both a prequel and remake of John Carpenter’s 1978 film of the same name, highlights the early years of fictional serial killer Michael Myers. In the film, a 10-year-old Myers murders several people, including his older sister, his sister’s boyfriend and his mother’s boyfriend.
“After I watched the movie I put it back in the case and threw it in the trashcan so that people wouldn’t think that it influenced me in any way,” Evans wrote, according to police.
The written confession says the teenager spent the earlier part of Oct. 3, 2012 watching the film, playing golf, and contemplating the murder of his mother, grandparents and three sisters.
“My plan was to kill my sister and my mom at my house and then go over to my grandparents and kill my oldest sister, Emily, and my two grandparents. Then I was going to wait until morning and kill my other sister, Audrey, because she was visiting from college,” the confession says.
The initial plan, it says, was for Jake Evans to use a folding-knife that belonged to his father. He imagined killing his sister and “causing her pain,” but, the confession says, after further consideration he decided he did not want them to “feel anything” so he used a .22 revolver he had stolen from his grandfather
“I set [the pistol] on the bed and was nervously opening the cylinder over and over again,” the confession reads. “I then spent probably over and [sic] hour walking nervously around the house thinking how life will never be the same and how I would never see them again.”
It was about 11:15 p.m. when Evans says he finally came up with the courage to kill, police said.
“I knocked on [my sister’s] door and told Mallory that mom needed her. She came out and out of the corner of her eye saw me pointing the gun at her. She thought I was joking and told me that I was freaking her out. I shot her in the back and then in the head. I ran down to the study and shot my mom three times,” the confession reads.
The confession says he ran into his room after the shootings and screamed at the top of his lungs. Afterward, he began to empty the gun when he heard noises and realized his sister was not dead; he yelled out he was sorry then shot her again. Police said he then went back to his mother’s body and fired another shot into her head.
“Very shocked and scared, I placed the gun on the kitchen counter and walked into the living room to dial 911,” the confession reads.
“It just kind of happened,” Jake Evans told the 911 operator, according to police. “I’ve been kind of, uh, planning on killing for a while now … I guess this is really selfish to say but, to me, I felt like they were just suffocating me in a way … Obviously, I am pretty, I guess, evil.”
Evans has been charged with one count of capital murder and two counts of murder.
Quisenberry ordered during a Wednesday hearing that the confession should not be sealed and entered it into evidence. The confession was released to the public Thursday. The judge on Wednesday also denied a request by Evans’ attorney to have the capital murder charge dropped against him. Quisenberry did, however, OK a request for bond, which he set at $750,000.
During the hearing, Evans’ father, who was out of town on business at the time of the murders, told the judge he would not bond his son out of jail.
A trial date has not yet been set.
His confession appears to outline a possible motive in the slayings.
“When I look at people, especially teenagers, I see them as being very cruel to one another emotionally,” the confession reads. “It seems that their favorite hobby is picking on someone else. The people who are racists, bullies, and who are full of themselves are the really evil ones and it amazes me because those three qualities are extremely common today. I was very sad because I felt like my own family were becoming the people I hate.”
It continues, “I know now that I’m done with killing. It’s the most dreadful and terrifying thing I will ever experience and … will haunt me forever.”
Kevin Davis would murder his mother before sexually assaulting her corpse in Texas. According to court documents Kevin Davis decided to murder his mother and did so by beating her to death with a hammer before sexually assaulting her dead body. The teen killer would be sentenced to life in prison without parole
Kevin Davis 2023 Information
SID Number: 50010490
TDCJ Number: 01959482
Name: DAVIS,KEVIN
Race: B
Gender: M
DOB: 1995-12-27
Maximum Sentence Date: LIFE SENTENCE
Current Facility: JESTER IV
Projected Release Date: LIFE SENTENCE
Parole Eligibility Date: 2044-03-25
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A Corpus Christi teenager who admitted to killing his mother and raping her corpse was sentenced Wednesday to life in prison.
Kevin Davis, 18, beat Kimberly Hill, his 50-year-old mother, with a hammer, strangled her with a cord and stabbed her in the head on March 27.
Davis pleaded not guilty to first-degree murder in June, but investigators played video in court on Tuesday showing him confessing to the crime, KIII TV reports.
“If I was to ask you what did she do to deserve this, what would you answer?” an investigator asked in the interview footage.
“Absolutely nothing. I’m just a terrible, disgusting person,” Davis said.
In the video confession, jurors heard Davis explain how he stuck his hand into the open wound and moved her brain around to make sure she was dead, KZTV-TV reports.
After that, the accused told investigators that he raped his mother’s dead body, adding “Guess I lost my virginity to a dead corpse.”
Davis tells detectives in the video that he had “the best mother,” one who didn’t deserve to die.
When police asked if he regretted his action, Davis said, “In a way, yes, but I wouldn’t take back what I did,” adding, “I did love her in a way. I’m a terrible, disgusting person.”
Davis told police he asked his mother for permission to die because he was bored with life and did not like other people,
He said she was upset but told him she could not control what he did so he decided to kill her, Davis told detectives, according to RawStory.com.
“I don’t have standards, I don’t have morals. A body’s a body — a piece of meat,” Davis said.
The trial began Tuesday, but both sides rested early Wednesday morning after the defense chose not to call any witnesses. Davis’ attorney did ask jurors not to give his client the 99-year maximum punishment.
Prosecutors argued that medical experts did not say Davis has mental or psychotic issues, and pointed out that he admitted to police that, if given the chance, he would probably kill again, according to KIII TV.
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An 18-year-old from Nueces County was sentenced to life in prison Wednesday for killing his mother with a hammer and sexually assaulting her corpse.
Kevin Jazrael Davis pleaded guilty Monday to killing his mother Kimberly Hill on March 26, the Corpus Christi Caller-Times reported. A jury took less than an hour to give him life in prison.
Davis told police he struck his mother about 20 times with a hammer and raped her after she died, according to the Caller-Times.
Davis described having violent and sexual fantasies involving women, including his mother and sister, in a police video screened for jurors.
Davis turned himself in to police on the day after the murder, which took place 4300 block of Kostoryz Road, according to KII-TV.
Davis told detectives he intended to leave town on his bicycle, but instead left the bike near train tracks. He walked to a house and asked couple there to call 911 because he murdered someone.
“I’m not mentally disturbed. I’m sane. I know what I did,” Davis said in the video.
After hitting Hill’s head with the hammer, Davis told detectives he put his hand inside her to feel her brain and make sure she was dead, KZTV reported.
He then had sexual intercourse with his dead mother’s corpse, according to KZTV.
Jesus Campos Jr was a fifteen year old from Texas who would sexually assault and murder a teen girl and then post the attack online. According to court documents Jesus Campos and the victim Karen Perez were at an abandoned building with a number of other teens. However the others would leave and that was the last time anyone saw Karen Perez alive.
Jesus Campos would sexually assault, which he would film, and murder the fifteen year old and then took photos of her body and sent it to friends. None of his friends would tell police. Three days after the murder Jesus Campos would confess to his father who would turn him in. This teen killer would be sentenced to life in prison without parole
Jesus Campos 2023 Information
SID Number: 50411857
TDCJ Number: 02231464
Name: CAMPOS,JESUS FRANCISCO JR
Race: H
Gender: M
DOB: 2000-10-03
Maximum Sentence Date: LIFE WITHOUT PAROLE
Current Facility: STILES
Projected Release Date: LIFE WITHOUT PAROLE
Parole Eligibility Date: LIFE WITHOUT PAROLE
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A South Houston teenager convicted of raping and murdering his girlfriend was sentenced this week to life in prison.
Jesus Campos Jr., 18, was convicted for the May 2016 murder of 15-year-old Karen Perez.
Perez was found dead underneath the kitchen sink in an empty apartment at an abandoned complex at Avenue N and 16th Street, next to South Houston High School.
Perez was missing for three days before Campos told his father, “She is not alive.” Campos’ father took the teen to Houston Police to confess, but Campos denied knowing where his girlfriend was. Campos told police he saw Perez at a taqueria the day before.
Another teen came forward after Perez’s disappearance and contacted Texas EquuSearch. The teen said he was part of a group with Perez and Campos that went to the abandoned apartment complex after being at the taqueria. That teen told officials he and two others went back to school but left Campos and Perez alone in the apartment.
Perez’s body was discovered hours after the teen’s tip.
In a search of Campos’ phone, investigators found images and a recording of Perez being sexually assaulted and strangled. In the recording, investigators say Perez is heard crying and begging Campos not to kill her, saying, “I don’t want to die, Jesus.”
In addition to the recording, jurors also saw graphic images Campos shared of Perez after killing her, and the teens with them refused to turn him in. One said in a text message, “bros before hoes.”
Campos was found guilty of capital murder in less than an hour and was sentenced to life in prison with a possibility of parole after 40 years.
A Houston teen who raped and murdered his girlfriend – and then shared images of her lifeless body with his friends – was sentenced to life in prison this week, according to Harris County District Attorney Kim Ogg’s office.
Jesus Campos Jr. was 15 when he killed 15-year-old Karen Perez on May 27, 2016. He was convicted of capital murder Monday after a six-day trial.
“I’ve tried several capital murder cases,” said Assistant District Attorney Jennifer Meriwether in a statement. “But the recording of Karen being raped, and pleading for her life before she was so viciously murdered, will stay with me for the rest of my life.”
Perez, a freshman at South Houston High School, went missing days after her 15th birthday.
Volunteers, including Texas EquuSearch, had been searching for her for three days when Campos told his father “she is not alive.”
Campos’ father took the teen to the Houston Police Department to confess, but during questioning, he denied knowing where his girlfriend was. He told police that he last saw her at a taqueria the day she went missing.
Three days after Perez went missing, another teenager called Texas EquuSearch and said he was part of a group of teens including Perez and Campos who left school and went to the taco restaurant and then to an abandoned apartment complex. He told authorities that he and two other teens left and went back to school, but Perez and Campos stayed at the apartment. That was the last time he saw her alive.
Based on the tip, police found the young girl’s body.
Campos continued to insist he did not know where Perez was, but when investigators searched Campos’s cell phone they found images and a recording of the sexual assault and strangulation.
During the recording, Perez is heard crying and begging Campos not to kill her: “I don’t want to die, Jesus.”
At trial, jurors heard that Campos shared graphic images of Perez after he killed her.
The jury found Campos guilty of capital murder in less than an hour. The 18-year-old was automatically sentenced to life in prison, with a possibility of parole after 40 years.
Zachary Callens was sixteen when he murdered his parents as they slept in Texas. According to court documents Zachary Callens was upset that his parents were thinking of sending him to a public school and that they were strict so he decided to murder them.
Zachary Callens would put on headphones and enter his parents room armed with a rifle that was equipped with a flashlight and would shoot and kill his parents. This teen killer would be ultimately convicted and sentenced to life in prison however he is eligible for parole after thirty years
Zachary Callens 2023 Information
SID Number: 50570559
TDCJ Number: 02093547
Name: CALLENS, ZACHARY ELLIOT
Race: W
Gender: M
DOB: 1998-05-20
Maximum Sentence Date: LIFE SENTENCE
Current Facility: FERGUSON
Projected Release Date: LIFE SENTENCE
Parole Eligibility Date: 2044-08-11
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A Frisco teen was sentenced to life in prison Monday for murdering his parents two years ago.
Zachary Callens, 18, was sentenced at the Collin County Courthouse for the Aug. 11, 2014, slayings of his parents, Ryan and Maria Elena Callens.
Defense attorneys had asked jurors to give their client a lighter sentence, recommending 16 years for each slaying to match Zachary’s age at the time of the offense. But the jury took about 70 minutes to reject that plea. Zachary Callens, the youngest of five children, must serve 30 years before becoming eligible for parole.
As they did in the guilt-innocence phase of the trial, defense attorneys called no witnesses.
But all four of Callens’ siblings and three of his aunts testified for the prosecution. All said that he had no remorse over his actions, is a continuing threat to society and deserves a harsh sentence.
“It was very hard for him to hear his siblings ask for him never to be allowed on the streets again,” said defense attorney April Steele, who sat next to her client and saw his tears while his two brothers and two sisters testified against him.
All told, about a dozen family members attended the six-day trial, including several of Ryan Callens’ nine siblings. Elena Callens’ two sisters were in Spain and one, Joan Maria Escudero, testified by Skype on Monday.
“They’re terrified if he gets out,” prosecutor Danette Broome told jurors. “He holds grudges. You don’t think he’s going to hold that grudge against them?”
In pushing for a lighter sentence, Steele emphasized Callens’ age at the time of the offense and called his long curly hair and plaid shirt “schoolboy” in appearance. A picture in evidence of a lockbox with ammunition for the Martin Model 60 rifle he used to kill his parents also showed Legos and his backpack.
“Do you put a 5-year-old in timeout for an hour? No. Age-appropriate punishment,” Steele told the jury. “He’s a kid.”
Testimony during the trial showed that Zachary Callens, who was home-schooled, was angry at his parents because they had grounded him for not keeping up with his schoolwork and general disobedience.
“They had a lot of life left to live,” Broome said of the boy’s parents during his closing argument..
But a state district judge had already made that decision a year ago, ruling that Zachary Callens should be tried as an adult. The brutal shooting, the lack of empathy for his family members and his low amenability to treatment were cited as reasons for the ruling.
Ryan Callens, 48, was shot twice in the doorway to his bedroom at the Frisco home. Maria Elena Callens, 49, was shot seven times while in the bed nearby.
An 18-year-old North Texas man must serve life in prison for the 2014 killing of his parents in what prosecutors call a dispute over unfinished schoolwork and disobedience.
Zachary Callens was sentenced Monday in McKinney.
A Collin County jury on Friday convicted Zachary Callens of murder in the deaths of his parents — Ryan and Maria Callens. The victims were shot to death in the family’s home in Frisco, about 30 miles north of Dallas.
The home-schooled son was 16 years old at the time of the August 2014 slayings, but he was tried as an adult. A judge who certified Zachary Callens as an adult cited the brutality of the crime and the teen’s lack of remorse after the deaths.
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A Collin County jury on Friday convicted 18-year-old Zachary Callens of murdering his parents in their Frisco home.
In August 2014, Ryan Callens, 48, was shot twice in the doorway to his bedroom. Maria Elena Callens, 49, was shot seven times while in the bed nearby
Their son, the youngest of five children, could be sentenced to life in prison. The punishment phase of his trial started late Friday and is to resume Monday morning.
Prosecutors said the motive for the double homicide appeared to be that Zachary, described by witnesses as a rebellious youth, was angry that his parents punished him for not doing his schoolwork.
The jury deliberated for 70 minutes before returning its verdict.
His four siblings are pressing for a long sentence.
“Nothing,” said Samantha Callens, 26, when asked about her brother’s emotional state since the murders. “Unremorseful. No guilt or sorry for how he’s affected us and our lives or even considering any of that.”
Zachary’s DNA was found on a flashlight that was duct-taped to the murder weapon, a Marlin Model 60 rifle.
His DNA was also on a roll of duct tape discovered in his room. Forensics experts said the tape on the gun came from that roll.
Zachary’s sister and a Frisco officer said he confessed outside the home right after the killings.
Zachary Callens was 16 at the time.
After 3 ½ days of prosecution testimony, Zachary’s defense lawyer, David Kleckner, called no witnesses. The defendant did not take the stand.
Kleckner tried to raise doubt about his client’s guilt by suggesting that Ryan Callens or one of Zachary’s siblings was the shooter.
The Collin County medical examiner, Dr. William Rohr, played down the notion that Callens had killed his wife, then himself.
The father’s wounds, Rohr testified, “didn’t show any characteristics of suicidal gunshot wounds.”
Scott Callens, 22, was living in the house but was not home on the night of the murders, according to testimony backed by tolltag records.
He testified, through tears, that he did not shoot his parents.
All four of Zachary’s siblings took the witness stand. They talked about their last dinner as a family, their parents’ disciplinary methods and what they knew about Zachary’s struggles at home.
“They were extremely involved in all of our lives,” Ryan Callens Jr., 25, said of his parents. “They made a visible and conscious effort to be involved in everything we did.”
Zachary Callens, home-schooled since fifth grade, had refused to do his schoolwork, his siblings said, so his parents grounded him and took away access to electronics.
He was days away from being sent to public school when the murders took place.
For three months before they were killed, the Callenses had been sending Zachary Callens to counseling. Records showed that he expressed homicidal thoughts toward his father, but counselors said they saw no need to refer him to police or for psychiatric treatment.
“This was standard counseling of a young man,” said Kleckner, the defense lawyer. He noted that the counselors never voiced concern for anyone’s safety and never noted any harsh feelings on Zachary’s part toward his mother.
Kleckner, in closing statements, tried to raise questions about the murder investigation. He called the police examination of the murder weapon sloppy. He said the police officers who responded to Sydney Callens’ 911 call took her word that her brother confessed, and immediately focused on him as the sole suspect.
“There could have been much further and deeper investigation,” Kleckner said. “This isn’t running a red light. This is double murder. You take the time to investigate every possible solid lead and clue. And that just wasn’t done in this case.
A “sheltered” teenage boy reportedly shot and killed his parents inside their picturesque Texas home, cops said.
Ryan and Maria Callens — who strictly monitored their child’s Internet habits and refused to let him watch violent movies — were found dead by Frisco police on Monday, WFAA reports.
Responding to a call of shots fired, the cops arrived at the grisly scene at around 2 a.m. to find the teen and his older sister standing outside the home, a Collin County court officer said during a hearing on Tuesday. The suspect was kneeling on the ground with his face in his hands, while the distraught sister frantically tried to dial someone on her phone, NBC-DFW reports.
A police officer reportedly overhead a chilling conversation between the siblings.
“What do you mean you did it?” the sister asked the suspect.
“I did it,” the boy said.
“Was this your plan?” the sister replied, receiving no response from her brother.
The girl then told officers that there was a gun in the house, as the boy gestured. Officers found a rifle on the floor of the house. A flashlight had been taped to it.
Ryan Callens, 48, was found by police in the Frisco home’s hallway, while his wife Maria Elena Callens, 49, was found in her bed with multiple bullet wounds—including in the head and arms.
Cops arrested the suspect on the spot. Authorities aren’t releasing his name because of his age, Frisco police spokesperson Colby Hill told The News. The teen has been charged with two counts of murder.
“The decision to try him as an adult will be made in consultation with the Collin county DAs office,” Hill wrote in an email. “The investigation is still on-going and that decision will be made in future court proceedings.”
During his first appearance in court, the suspect shuffled in wearing an orange jail jumpsuit. Shackled at his wrists and ankles, he remained calm and appeared to show no emotion, Dallas News reports.
A district judge decided that the teen will be detained for 14 days as the cops continue the investigation, Bill Dobiyanski, the district attorney’s first assistant, confirmed to The News.
The disturbing double homicide has neighbors struggling to wrap their minds around whether the seemingly sweet teen could be responsible for such a heinous crime.
Several friends suggested that the teen, who was homeschooled, was subjected to strict rules by his parents.
He was very sheltered,” friend Jonathon Marcum, 15, told The Dallas News. “If he broke the guidelines, he got punished.”
The son was reportedly not allowed to watch R-rated movies. PG-13 movies with violent scenes were edited, while his Internet usage was strictly monitored.
“His parents were really uptight on him,” added friend William Castillo.
Other neighbors said that the teen wasn’t allowed to drink soda and was held to a strict curfew.
Natalie Benitez, who has reportedly known the teen since elementary school, said she was shocked by the allegations. She said the teen had told her he liked being homeschooled.
“He’s, like, so against school,” Benitez, 15, said. “He’s, like, ‘I would never go back.'”
The suspect is currently in custody at the Collin County Juvenile Detention Center, NBC-DFW reports.
Neighbors said the Cullens had two children in college and a daughter in high school. A fourth child has recently graduated from college.
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