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Deputies asked Collin what had happened, but he became “uncooperative” and demanded to speak to a lawyer.
Investigators quickly discovered that the evidence at the scene did not match the situation the teen described to police over the phone.
Witnesses told detectives that Collin and his mother were shouting at each other outside the residence when they saw the boy grab his mother by the hair and drag her inside as she repeatedly pleaded, “Let me go.”
Nancy K. Jones, who lives across the street, recalled the incident to WFLA: ‘He opened the door, and there was some kind of argument. I couldn’t hear the exact words because I was sitting on my front porch. The next thing I saw, he grabbed her and pulled her inside the house. It looked like he grabbed her by the hair.’
Collin’s grandmother, who owns the home but was not present during the stabbing, informed the police that the teen had previously shown physical or verbal aggression toward his mother on several occasions, according to WFLA. The grandmother had also confided in Jones before, mentioning that Collin ‘had problems.’ An autopsy by the medical examiner’s office concluded that Catherine Griffin died from a deep stab wound to the neck, which was determined to be inconsistent with an accidental injury. The teenager is now an orphan as he allegedly k!lled his dad as well.
Collin fatally shot his father, Charles Robert Griffith, in 2023 during an altercation at their Oklahoma home on Valentine’s Day, claiming self-defence, according to an arrest affidavit. He was 15 years old at the time. The teen told police he had been cornered by his dad in the bedroom of the house, so he picked up a gun and shot him twice — once in the chest and once in the head. Collin’s mother paid $50,000 to bail him out of jail, records show. The charges were later dropped as self-defence could not be ruled out, according to the Lincoln County, Oklahoma, District Attorney’s Office.
He was reunited with his mother exactly a year after he shot his father, through Florida’s Department of Children and Families. He first threatened to kill Catherine at that time, before allegedly killing her on Sunday. “Collin Griffith is a violent predator — he has now killed both his father and his mother,” Polk County Sheriff Grady Judd said in a statement. “We will hold him accountable in Polk County — we will do everything we can to keep him separated from civil society.”
The 17-year-old is charged with first-degree murder, kidnapping and violation of a no-contact order.
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