Posted
10/17/2006 05:40:00 PM
by Douglas
Why shoot your mother 23 times with a rifle? Because sometimes 22 times just isn't
enough.Police say a man with a history of mental problems killed his mother by shooting her with an assault rifle before family members found him wandering in the rain Sunday night outside their southwest Houston home.
The suspect's father and siblings returned home Sunday to see Efrain Frias standing in the rain with no shirt or shoes, Padilla said. When asked what he was doing, the suspect responded: "I did something bad. I shot my mom," Padilla said.
The family found Angelica Frias' body in a bedroom closet, Padilla said, adding that she had been shot 23 times. The weapon belongs to the suspect's brother, police said.
Stolen weapon, dead mother, mental illness. . . . there's nothing about this story that
isn't completely tragic. So why do I expect blame to be placed on the only participant in this tragedy that is inanimate?