Featured 13-Year-Old Lataya Powell Is Sorry For Killing Her Mother, Stabbing Her Brother

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Lataya Powell told police officers “I killed my mom, and she’ll never forgive me if she is alive.”

The Pennsylvania 13-year-old is accused of killing her mother after she confiscated her cell phone.

While being taken into custody, she told WYOU that she felt “regret, guilt and self-disgust.”

Police also found an 11-year-old boy with stab wounds to the back, but they appeared to be non-life threatening.

Powell as been charged with homicide, two counts of aggravated assault, and tampering with evidence.

She is being charged as an adult.

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13-year-old girl accused of killing mom after her phone was taken away, police say

A 13-year-old girl is accused of killing her mother after she took her phone away, according to Pennsylvania authorities.

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According to the Wilkes-Barre Police Department, around 12:30 p.m. they responded to reports of an unresponsive woman who was not breathing.

Upon arrival, police say they found the victim, Tameeka S. Tucker, with multiple stab wounds to her neck, back and heavy blood flow coming from her head.

The affidavit states when officers arrived there were no knives or cutting instruments in plain view, however, noticed kitchen drawers and cabinets had padlocks on them.

One ‘hasp’ appeared to have been broken and a padlock was lying on the ground, the affidavit notes.

Officers said Powell made various comments while in custody such as “I don’t have my phone because my mom took it before our fight,” “I’m the reason my mom is dead,” and “I don’t know how people can do stuff like this and not feel bad about it,” along with various of other comments.

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[runninfawn]

ok i am asking myself who would padlock kitchen drawers and cabinets and why.... i can see child guards on drawers and lower cabinets if you have small children not padlocks unless one child is pronr to violence but they are useless to any one that is determine to use whatever the drawers and cabinets contain .. it might delay them but .....

 

[BuffettGirl]

What the hell good does "I'm sorry" do now?

 

[notausername]

ok i am asking myself who would padlock kitchen drawers and cabinets and why.... i can see child guards on drawers and lower cabinets if you have small children not padlocks unless one child is pronr to violence but they are useless to any one that is determine to use whatever the drawers and cabinets contain .. it might delay them but .....

Three possibilities...

1. Daughter has violent impulses and a dangerous lack of impulse control;

2. Daughter has suicidal impulses/self-harms and the padlocks are for her safety;

3. Mother is controlling/abusive and everything in their home is strictly restricted or padlocked. (Ex. Pantry)

Sad, regardless.

 

[runninfawn]

Three possibilities...

1. Daughter has violent impulses and a dangerous lack of impulse control;

2. Daughter has suicidal impulses/self-harms and the padlocks are for her safety;

3. Mother is controlling/abusive and everything in their home is strictly restricted or padlocked. (Ex. Pantry)

Sad, regardless.

on 1 and 2: there was a younger child in the house she also stabbed... if one or 2 was the reasons for the padlocks maybe getting the help the teen needed to find the route cause of her problems and getting her the helps she needed, and, sorry to say, but if violent impulses do you maybe sacrifice one child to keep the other one home??? as a mother i know it would have been the hardest decisions i would have had to make ...i raised many teens my own and fosters and had suicidal ones and what she did when her mother took her phone away, to me at least. it is not a sign of being suicidal more one of pure rage... if mother was controlling/abusive and padlock was another mean of exercising her control , i can see a teen having the phone taken away as the last straw because that is/was the last thing the teen had "some" control over something that gave her a bit of a semblance at a normal live and some breathing room...

 

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The homicide case against a 14-year-old girl accused in the fatal stabbing of her mother will be settled in Luzerne County Juvenile Court.

Judge David W. Lupas granted a request by assistant district attorneys Jonathan Dende and Gerry Scott to transfer Lataya Powell’s case to juvenile court during a status conference late Friday afternoon.

Powell, then 13, was charged as an adult by Wilkes-Barre police with criminal homicide, aggravated assault and tampering with evidence.

Court records say police responded to a residence where they found Tameeka S. Tucker, 44, deceased on March 29, 2024.

Powell was found sitting on a bedroom floor as she told officers she was sorry she killed her mother and she stabbed her mother during an argument.

Dende and Scott said after Powell was evaluated for her mental health, two psychologists recommended her criminal case be transferred to juvenile court.

Homicide suspect, 14, transferred to juvenile court

<p>WILKES-BARRE — The homicide case against a 14-year-old girl accused in the fatal stabbing of her mother will be settled in Luzerne County Juvenile Court.</p>

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