Son, aged 14, 'shoots his teacher mother in the head for being too strict'

Son, aged 14, 'shoots his teacher mother in the head for being too strict'

 

A boy of 14 is suspected of killing his teacher mother because she was 'too strict.'

The teenager is alleged to have sneaked up behind 46-year-old Staci Lisenby and shot her at point blank range in the head.

The popular maths teacher at  Orangefield Junior High, Texas, was still alive when reached by paramedics, but later died in hospital.

Her youngest son, who cannot be named for legal reasons, was the only other person in the house when she was gunned down, according to police.

He told detectives he saw an intruder fleeing from their home at 2478 Oilla Road, Orangefield, after hearing a shot.

The teen said he chased the intruder into a wooden area that was muddy and wet. When he lost him, the teen said he returned to the house and called police. 

But after investigators could find no trace of anyone running or walking through the area they began to focus their investigation on the boy.

Friends later told police he had talked about killing his parents because they were too strict.

One said the teen was 'tired of how strict his parents were and that he intended on killing them both and then running away.'

Tragedy: Gun victim Staci Lisenby was voted teacher of the year at her school, Orangefield Junior High in Texas

The boy's father was at church when the shooting occurred on February 20th, leaving his mother alone in the house.

A number of guns that were kept at the property were locked in a safe, but a .22 calibre pistol had allegedly been secretly kept by the teen after he found it in the attic.

Mrs Lisenby died at at Christus St. Elizabeth hospital in Beaumont from a .22 calibre bullet wound, according to an autopsy report.

An arrest warrant revealed that the boy told police he 'suddenly heard a shot and turned and saw an unknown white male opening and fleeing out the front door of the residence.'

Care: St Elizabeth Hospital in Beaumont, Texas, where teacher Staci Lisenby died

He has been held at a juvenile detention centre after giving himself up to authorities.

Lawyer Wendell Odom Jr, who in the past has defended Enron executives and Andrea Yates, the Houston woman who drowned her five children in the bathtub in 2001, has been appointed as his lawyer.

Mrs Lisenby was named Teacher of the Year at at the high school in 2010. Counsellors have been called in to help grieving students.