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10-Year-Old Boy With Anger Issues Stabbed 12-Year-Old To Death

January 17, 2012 at 2:16 pm by Morbid

El Cajon, CA – Police say a 10-year-old boy with known anger issues stabbed a 12-year-old friend to death on Monday.

The two boys were part of a group of kids who played in the neighborhood and were in the younger boy’s driveway when the stabbing occurred. No motive has been given, but the two boys got into some kind of altercation that ended with the 10-year-old stabbing the older boy in the chest with a steak knife.

Police say the boy waited at the scene and was there as paramedics arrived and tried to save the wounded boy. The victim was rushed to Rady Children’s Hospital, but he would die an hour later. The 10-year-old, who is reportedly on medication for a chemical imbalance, was taken into police custody.

Neighbors in the area told reporters that the suspect’s emotional problems were well known, but that his tantrums were always verbal and never physical. One added that the boy’s mother was always pro-active in dealing with her son’s issues.

We had a kid like this in our neighborhood growing up. He had just moved in so naturally we teased him relentlessly just to watch him blow his top. One day we pushed his ass over the edge a bit and watched him practically scalp a kid with a hockey stick.

Tags: California, Crime, Juvenile, Murder, Stabbing, steak knife

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Anonymous

Damn…what’s with all the kids stabbin people?! I guess I should take mine a little more serious when they give me those evil eyes..
SK

clearly he just needs a few more pills to be healed..
Anonymous

What happened to the new kid in your neighbourhood when he’d “practically scalp[ed] a kid with a hockey stick”?
http://www.dreamindemon.com Morbid

I dunno. They moved shortly after. I’m sure his family had to pay for that other kids head, though.
EveryVillainIsLemons

If one of the kids has anger issues, why wasn’t an adult on hand just in case he had a meltdown?
http://www.facebook.com/HamsterNinjaofDOOM Alecia Hendricks

We had a kid in my neighborhood that refused to wear clothes. He was about 8, same age as me, he’d just run around outside butt ass naked. His mom made him read bible verses to try and cure him. Yeah, didn’t work out so well.
Athena

Probably because his tantrums had always been verbal. The leap from verbal fits to stabbing a friend to death is, obviously, not impossible, but not a logical or likely leap I would expect even a protective parent to foresee, especially if the child was actively receiving therapy.

Sometimes, bad things just happen. We set up unrealistic expectations for ourselves and others when we forget that not everything can be prevented.
Anonymous

Probably because of that bit where he’d never acted out physically with the neighbors before. His very first attack on a neighbor kid and it’s lethal? I doubt they saw it coming. His parents likely thought the biggest issues were things like not being able to take him to a restaurant, or being a classroom disruption – not that he’d off another kid right in front of their house.
http://akemi-mokoto.me Akemi Mokoto

America: We are so violent, our children kills people. Amazing. Angry children…
http://www.facebook.com/people/Shannon-Bennett/1803988499 Shannon Bennett

Those are some serious anger issues for a 10 year old!
Athena

This kind of reminds me of the trailer for We Need to Talk About Kevin, a movie I can’t wait to see. How horrifying would it be to know that your child was a ticking time bomb, perhaps realizing he is capable of something monstrous (or perhaps not allowing yourself to), doing everything you can to address the issue… only for it to have all been in vain? One of my worst nightmares.

Luckily, my little one is only slightly sadistic.
Anonymous

I wonder why…
Anonymous

There’s nothing wrong with medication and without knowing what was going on or what the child’s metal condition was you don’t know if pill were the right tactic or not. Many times it takes months to figure out correct kind and dosage to give someone. Lot’s of people have been help by medicine including me. Perhaps I’m over sensitive, but that seemed like a snarky and unnecessary comment.
Anonymous

I’ve read interviews with Tilda Swinton and the director, as well as watching the extended trailer, and it seems to present an interesting perspective on the nature vs. nurture issue — when Kevin was little, his mom couldn’t form a bond with him, and she endlessly berated herself for her lack of maternal instinct. When he began to act out, she blamed herself for that reason. But there seems to be a strong implication that her lack of bonding WAS her maternal instinct trying to tell her something. I guess we’ll have to see the film to find out, but it seems this movie might be planning to make the case for something I’ve been saying for years: nurture is extremely important because neglectful parenting and abuse can turn good kids bad in their behavior, but some kids are just born rotten to the core.

I can’t wait either.
http://www.facebook.com/people/Rebecca-Garcia/100000746322144 Rebecca Garcia

That is so tragic. I would like to know how he got the knife, just saying. But seriously, 2 kids’ lives are lost and others are scarred for life. Very, Very sad.
http://twitter.com/AngelsMom0806 Angels Mom

I hadn’t heard anything about this film until Tilda Swinton was interviewed on NPR. The story seems incredible and I’m looking forward to seeing it. The books only around $9 on Amazon, that’s going to be my next purchase. Thanks for reminding me of this film.
Anonymous

In the meantime… Read the book
Athena

I’m a little oversensitive about the issue of children and prescription drugs, or, more specifically, children and the over-prescription OF drugs. While everything you say is 100% true, I certainly understand SK’s reaction to the mention of medication. It highlights some important points: That, a child being on medication does NOT signal that everything necessary is being done for them and that medication can actually exacerbate an issue. Not that either of these things are the case in this situation, but I see medicating children with psychological or behavioral issues to be every bit as dangerous as it can be helpful.
SK

No where in my comment did I see my self write that the kid shouldn’t be on medicine. Since you decided to turn this into a personal attack against yourself, I’ll make it about me now; I too have been on A LOT of medicine to deal with a lot of different things, making a joke implying that his dosage wasn’t enough is just that, a joke. I think telling someone their comment is snarky and unnecessary is snarky and unnecessary but then in saying that, I guess i’m being snarky and unnecessary. xo
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Anonymous

When I was 9 or 10 a neighborhood boy I personally found disgusting “stole a kiss” and I flipped the fuck out. I grabbed a garden hoe and started chasing him around. Luckily for us both I never managed to do what I intended, which was slam it into his head. I was a very angry child.
Anonymous

Exactly, because if, as Castille has pointed out about nurture vs nature, the boy is pissed about lack of nurturing, meds aren’t going to help this kid. They might soothe his attitude at times but eventually the anger is going to play out and the meds won’t help a bit.

This is sad all the way around. No winners here.
Anonymous

HD??
Anonymous

The poor lad probably has more issues than meds themselves can heal.

Meds have helped me too!
Anonymous

Almost a nice recover.
Anonymous

Hindsight is 20/20 but foresight is not.
Anonymous

You don’t have steak knives in your house? I’ve got, well, it depends on your definition of steak knife. I’ve got at least ten knives I’ve used to cut steak before.
Jess

I love the pic …..
Pyncky

he’s the debbil! I bet he plays foosball.
Anonymous

I had the same interpretation that DangerousKindOfSnark had.Though I might agree somewhat with that original interpretation. When “depression” is listed as a side effect of antidepressants, somebody has screwed up somewhere. As impressive as modern medicine is, we’re still wildly flailing around in the dark when it comes to brain chemistry.I’m slightly biased though. I got zombified by an antidepressant prescription that I didn’t really need. And I know nothing about this kid.
Sam

He stayed with the boy he stabbed until the ambulance arrived to try and save him – sounds like he even scared himself with the explosion of violence at his own hands. What a shame.
Anonymous

Snarky and unnecessary? I thought that was pretty much the usual here on DD. Perhaps I’m on the wrong site today???
Anonymous

Is this a troll, or have you not heard of the murder of James Bulger?
http://akemi-mokoto.me Akemi Mokoto

There we go. Just like a good little sheep you so easily throw “troll” out there. When someone says something you do not like, you will say “troll” good little sheep.
Anonymous

There we go. Just like a troll you so easily throw “good little sheep” out there. When someone says something you do not like, you will say “good little sheep” troll.
http://pulse.yahoo.com/_ZC6JIZM2T5A2R465TIODIJV5NY Summer

I had a flashback from when I was little and a girl across the street went to kick up my kickstand on my new bike. It had a purple banana seat with a rainbow on it and purple streamers. It was pretty bad apples! I didn’t want her to touch my new bike at all, she was one of those kids that always had something better than you and I was proud of my new bike. I picked up a small garden shovel and hit her in the ass with it a few times. She ran inside screaming and I went home satisfied, I’m not gonna lie, lol. But then her parents came over with her, spun her around and pulled her pants down in our driveway screaming “Look what your girl did to my daughter” There were 3 welts shapped like the shovel splitting open, I was grounded for a 2 months at the age of 6. Her brother broke my nose a week later at the bus stop with a rock…those were the days
Anonymous

It might very well be an over reaction SK, which I pointed out myself at the end of my post. Jumping on my ass is not really needed since I did it to myself already. If your statement was a joke, it didn’t come off as one to me and obviously at least Tenbux can be included in that. I’m sorry if I pissed you off cause it seems like there’s a bit of an overblown reaction to my previous comment.
Anonymous

My biggest problem with giving kids meds is that people usually think it’s a fix all and follow up care never happens. Personally, I think only mental health specialists should be able to prescribe long term psychiatric medicine. A general practitioner has no business treating long term or severe mental problems.
LeaveMeBe

What verses? I just wonder if they were the same ones I had to recite. They didn’t work on me either.
LeaveMeBe

Speak for yourself. My childrens don’t kills people. And my children don’t kill people either. :P

Amazing. Asshole adult.
Athena

Agreed. That’s my biggest problem with medicating children – that the accompanying psychotherapy is often inadequate or absent entirely. I was a teenager back in the mid-90s, when medicating children really became mainstream. Two of my three best friends were medicated. Neither went to weekly therapy or anything like that. Neither actually needed to be medicated, and soon discovered that medicating a generally healthy mind can create instability where none previously existed.

Medicine should support regular psychotherapy. Without the consistent counseling, one is merely creating a dependency on medication, as the root of the problem is not being addressed.
http://akemi-mokoto.me Akemi Mokoto

Taking what I say and editing it does not make you seem credible you know, sheep person.
http://akemi-mokoto.me Akemi Mokoto

Give it some time.
Jennifer Ekstrom

I live in El Cajon and this story is all over the place. First- my heart goes out to both families. I can only imagine the helplessness and devastation they both must be overwhelmed with. Life is so fragile and I know at 10 years old I didn’t understand that. Children don’t understand the realness of death. The article in my local paper states that the child who killed his friend will likely be put in a juvenile detention center until the age of 18 and then moved to prison until the age of 25. I can only imagine the type of person he will be when he’s let out. There has to be an alternative. The only thing that will come of this is the loss of another life. This child is a product of drug companies. Parents these days fill kids up with so many different drugs and we’re surprised when their little undeveloped brains react. He needs help- not jail.
Anonymous

At least they didn’t try an exorcism.
Anonymous

Funny we’ve both seen this story everywhere and you walk away with ‘product of the drug companies’ and I walked away with ‘adopted child with severe issues whose parents were doing all they could to help him.’ You must’ve had past painful experience with pharmaceuticals and I with troubled children, lol.
http://www.dreamindemon.com Count Rackula

If you don’t like America, get the fuck out. It really is that simple.
http://akemi-mokoto.me Akemi Mokoto

I ALWAYS hear that and it does not make that statement any less stupid. You obviously do not know the steps, process, and requirements to move to another country(including the 10 others ranked better than the US). It is better I just shit on the failing United States, for now. Thanks.
http://www.dreamindemon.com Count Rackula

It’s not a stupid statement at all, and it’s a good thing you live in a country that actually lets you shit on it without repercussion. Hopefully one day you’ll move elsewhere so that those of us who appreciate this country can be rid of assholes like you. If there’s one thing I am ashamed of here in the US, it’s that we allow stupid, ungrateful pieces of absolute shit like you to live here. I wish we could require dumbfucks like you to serve in the armed forces.
http://akemi-mokoto.me Akemi Mokoto

There are plenty of free countries. The US is not the only one and it DAMN sure is not the freest. If america wanted to get rid of assholes or idiots then they would have launched nukes in every city in the country. I love the baseless insult fest. Real mature. Good job!
http://www.dreamindemon.com Count Rackula

I’ve read enough of your comments to know that those insults are certainly not baseless, but thanks for the pat on the back.
http://www.facebook.com/people/Lamar-MrdotRogers-Rogers/1851267847 Lamar MrdotRogers Rogers

the problem is the medication that was given to the kid… Should have just gave the kid some marijuana and he wouldnt even think about stabbing other kids.
Anonymous

I just wanna know why kids are so damned angry these days….

FUck my mom would beat my ass if I was angry & then she’d beat it some more if I was angry & made a face or any sound that might be perceived as angry/anger towards her for beating me.

I WAS GOING TO BE FUCKING HAPPY & SMILLING AFTER GETTING A BEATING OR MY MOM WOULD KILL ME.
Anonymous

Your comment didn’t make any sense. To me you just wanted to use that stupid little Sailor Moon look alike cartoon & this provided a semi excuse for it.
http://akemi-mokoto.me Akemi Mokoto

I would address your high level of stupidly but the fact you went off topic and named an anime from 50 billion years ago killed any chance of me taking you seriously.
Anonymous

GO AWAY, NO ONE LIKES YOU TROLL!
Mr. Anonymous

10 year olds don’t understand death. At least when I was 10, I just remember not thinking about what truly death was about as I have acted in a situation like this; luckily I was stopped in time and was able to calm myself and move on. The thing is, I never ever was a bully or violent person at all EXCEPT when someone was hurtful or mean to my mom or dad as I was very protective and respectful for them. Even if someone says they do not like my mom or dad I would get very defensive. Otherwise, I was friendly with everyone. Anyways, when I was 10, there was this 11 year old kid who was the biggest asshole ever. He was on heavy meds though for behavior problems. When he was on meds, he was fine, but off of them he was a HUGE prick and far out asshole. He would throw and break things and he even punched this 5 year old in the stomach for no reason at all once. Well, this one time my mom was there as it was in a daycare and she was there, I also was there. He was being an asshole and would not listen to my mom. She said she was going to call his parents and then he told her “Fuck you stupid bitch”. I was a few feet away looking at him say that to my mom’s face. Right when I heard that, my heart broke. I started to tear up and all I felt was hate. My only thing on my mind was “He must die”. Nothing else mattered. I went into the kitchen and got a knife. I walked back with the knife tight in my hands. The thing was, I wasn’t thinking at all. Nothing else mattered at the time as I was so furious and crying, my heart hurt after what he said to my mom. I walked up slowly and shaking, probably 5 feet away and was going to stab his back. Then, my friend in another room rushed up and stopped me saying “Hey man stop you are going to go to jail.” Then, when I saw his face, I immediately dropped the knife and was just in shock for a while. It is so weird typing this as this is something I could NEVER do now. Hell, I can’t harm any living thing. It does not even coming into my mind to do such a thing. Of course, for protection as if something attacks me or my loved ones with force, I’ll be sure to kill them first. A small spider was in my room so I got a cup and put it inside, then released it outside. I’m all about peace. At age 10 though, your mind still just doesn’t understand consequences, life and death, and alternate ways to control your emotions. I look back and am just so glad it did not escalate that far. It feels like it was just a nightmare but then I have to realize it did happen and it was apart of who I am today. Btw, we actually became friends a few months later and he started to become more “nicer”, as less being an asshole. It seems that if I am friends with him, he would stop misbehaving so yep, this would have been a horrible thing if I went through with that. VIOLENCE IS NOT THE ANSWER.