NOT GUILTY 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

 

[imstilla.grandma]

Collin Griffin speaking with his grandmother from the back of a police car.

"I was saying, ‘Mom, I’m not a psychopath. I’m not this murderer. I’m just trying to peacefully leave or peacefully coexist. She kept telling me to shut up and shut up, and when I wouldn’t shut up, she hit me.’"

His grandmother pushes back. "No, that’s not what happened, Collin. That’s not what happened. You never said you wanted to peacefully coexist," she said.

"I’ve been saying that!" Collin replied.

"Collin did not want to come back home, and I said you don’t have a choice, you have to go back home," said his grandmother in the video. "And he said, ‘No, I want foster care,’ and even the corporal said that foster care isn’t good for you. You have issues you need to work on."

'I want foster care:' Video shows Charlotte teen's pleas before mother's murder

FOX 4 obtains new bodyworn camera video of teen: "I want foster care"—Video shows Collin Griffith’s pleas before the violent tragedy.

www.fox4now.com

 

[Kemug]

What an appalling tragedy all round. I really don't see how this young man can ever be let loose again in the community. Let's at least keep his grandmother safe - and any caregivers.

 

[Chimera]

What an appalling tragedy all round. I really don't see how this young man can ever be let loose again in the community. Let's at least keep his grandmother safe - and any caregivers.

Agreed. ^^^

I do think if he's ever let out he could target other family members, or anyone he thinks has 'wronged' him.
I seriously doubt he can be rehabilitated.
Scary !!!
Omo.

 

[Dotta]

" 'Psychopath' teen's chilling warning
seen in newly-released bodycam
before murdering mother who bailed him out for killing his father."

'Psychopath' teen's chilling warning in newly-released bodycam

Collin Griffith, 17, gave Florida deputies a chilling warning months before he allegedly killed his mother.

www.dailymail.co.uk

 

[imstilla.grandma]

 

[arielilane]

@cathyrusson

NEW TRIAL - Openings likely Tuesday of next week: FL v. #CollinGriffith Teen Killer Murder Trial. He killed his dad determined to be self-defense but then killed his mother months later.

Here is a link to our coverage so far:

https://twitter.com/x/status/1882853075016425540

 

[arielilane]

@CourtTV

#Bodycam of #CourtTV's next live trial shows you what's to come in the murder case against 17-year-old #CollinGriffith.The teen did not face charges for killing his dad but will now face a jury next week in his mom's murder.

https://twitter.com/x/status/1882524667413676137

 

[dalsglen]

He's absolutely disturbing.

 

[arielilane]

Deadly Son Murder Trial Preview: FL v. Collin Griffith​

Jury selection gets underway in the murder trial against teenager Collin Griffith. He's charged as an adult for the stabbing death of his mother but this isn't the first time the 17-year-old has killed someone.