A 13-year-old allegedly stabbed his mother to death in her bed. Then he took a bloody selfie
by Andrea Blanco
Dec 10, 2023
4 minutes
Just moments before the brutal attack that took her life on 12 October, Irina Garcia was captured on a baby monitor lovingly holding her newborn daughter in her bedroom. Garcia had given birth 14 days earlier and was alone with her baby and teen son in her apartment in Hialeah, Florida, when the killing ensued.
Prosecutors have since alleged that it was Garcia’s 13-year-old son Derek Rosa who viciously stabbed her with a kitchen knife, fatally slicing an artery in her neck.
The stabbing shocked the local community and left loved ones wondering what could have possibly motivated Derek, an honour roll student, to
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