FL - Collin Griffith, 17, stabs mother to death 1 year after fatally shooting father - Sep. 11, 2024

[GoBuckeyes]

He's been charged with violating an order of protection. Maybe he was not living at his mother's?

 

[GoBuckeyes]

Yep. His dad abused him, and his mom didn’t protect him. He was severely traumatized and full of rage at both of them, it sounds like. If this is the case, it’s no wonder he said he would kill her. He wouldn’t have been able to understand the difficulty victims of DV have when trying to get away, and possibly blamed her.

Who knows who else he might blame if ever let out of jail/prison.

 

[LadyL]

I am thinking the Menendez bros....not sure if we will ever know what the father was doing...and C is being presented as simply bad but maybe there is a back story... however who to believe? And what does society do with people this angry and violent?

lock 'em up and throw away the key

 

[Kemug]

Murdering both parents is just so extreme that I wonder what he was like as a child and preteen and what kinds of evaluations and diagnoses he received over the years.

Did his mother and grandmother believe he was innocent of murdering his father, or did they live in fear of him?

I believe that his mother feared him - and that was why she gave him expensive gifts and holidays, in the (forlorn) hope that she would then be safe from him.

 

[Jinja]

That’s a serial killer waiting to happen!!!

 

[ChatteringBirds]

As a mother, I can't imagine the secret pain and despair of having a child you fear this way, and nothing you do or say will make your relationship with your child normal.

 

[Audrina]

from what I saw on court tv - his mom wanted him home with her so badly, she had just bought him a new car, he graduated HS early & with college credits. I will never understand people like this

 

[Tealgrove]

I say this a lot but look at his soulless eyes - there's nothing there IMO.

Yup. They’re dead.

 

[arielilane]

PORT CHARLOTTE, Fla. —
A Port Charlotte teen accused of murdering his mother made his first court appearance on Friday after being indicted by a grand jury.

Collin Griffith, 17, is facing a first-degree murder charge and a kidnapping charge after being formally accused on Thursday.

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Port Charlotte teen accused of murdering mother makes first court appearance Friday

A Port Charlotte teen accused of murdering his mother is expected to appear in court on Friday after being indicted by a grand jury.

www.nbc-2.com

Sep 20, 2024

Griffith is due back in court on October 8.

 

[arielilane]

CG, another evil person's eyes staring right through you. Nothing there, no one home. jmo

 

[arielilane]

Collin said he had been cornered in the bedroom by the father. Judd said that's when Collin picked up the gun and shot Charles twice, once in the head and once in the chest.

Collin was arrested on charges of first-degree murder of his father, which were later dropped.

Full article at link...

Port Charlotte teen accused of killing mother a year after father's murder

According to the Polk County Sheriff’s Office, Collin Griffith killed his mother, Catherine Griffith, 39, in his grandma’s Auburndale, Florida home.

www.nbc-2.com

Sep 11, 2024