Collin Griffith is accused of killing his mother on September 8, 2024. Deputies say the teenager called 911 for help, stating that he and his mother, Catherine Griffith, 39, had gotten into a fight. He claimed that during this argument, his mother lunged at him with a knife and fell on it, resulting in a deep stab wound to her neck. Collin was arrested by police, with a medical examiner ruling that her injuries could not have been caused by falling onto a knife On the day Catherine died, she wrote a text message saying that Collin needed to return home and stop violating his probation and threatened to meet his probation officer if he didn't come home that day. He had been placed on active juvenile probation following his arrest in November 2023 for battery domestic violence in connection to his physical attack on his mother. She knew he was hiding at her mother's house and said that she was going to drive over and try and get her Collin to come with her. She made the journey to her mother's mobile home in Auburndale where witnesses outside the mobile home saw Collin drag his mother into the home by the hair on her head. Later that day Collin called the police to say his mother was dead. The teenager had previously been accused of killing his father Charles, 43, on Valentine's Day in 2023 and said the shooting had been an act of self-defence. The charges against him were eventually dropped. |