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Police arrested the 16-year-old son of a woman who was found shot dead and stuffed inside a plastic trash bin in the Bronx Wednesday.
Darwin Jackson reportedly told police investigators he shot his mother, Tihesha Savage, 34, amid an argument, the New York Daily News reported. He was charged with second-degree murder and weapons possession.
A superintendent of the building where the family lived made the discovery when he spotted a tan, rectangular bin near some bushes shortly after 9 a.m. Wednesday. When he took off the lid, he found Savage’s crumpled body swaddled in a blood-stained Scooby Doo blanket, with what appeared to be a gunshot wound to the back of her head.
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The super called police. Amid the commotion, neighbors reported they saw Jackson walking around the scene in a daze. He even reportedly identified his mother’s body.
NYPD officers arrested the teen Wednesday evening and took him to a precinct in the Bronx where he was questioned until he confessed, police say. In building surveillance video obtained by police, a male can be seen dragging the bin across the street and leaving it there, police said.
Neighbors said they were startled and saddened to hear of Savage’s murder.
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“She was just a hard-working mother,” Kevin McCorkle said. “If you lived here, you’d call her a ghost. If she wasn’t with her kids, she was in the house.”
Savage was a mother of two and had lived in the area for years, neighbors said.
It wasn't clear if Jackson had a lawyer.
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No more mom's meatloaf for you, junior!
Now, he will just get Bubba's meat.
16 years old and he already has a gun?? He should have put the gun in is mouth and pulled
the trigger.
A shooting in NYC? Impossible, guns are illegal there!
Why was Tranquil's message collapsed? Does MSNBC not like meatloaf?
The article could have been "Savaged by Darwin"
At least he wasn't sitting in front of the TV focusing on alcohol ads.
in this day and age doesnt anyone know how to get rid of a body?
But she told him to take out the trash!
So does this mean Darwin lose in this case?
Savage? Does anyone else ever wonder (even for a brief moment) if the name you were born with has in some subliminal way an effect on the outcome of your life?
This story is one big lie. Everyone knows shootings can't happen where guns are illegal.
Ban handguns everywhere.
Sorry for the families loss!!
The kid may be cold blooded but I guarantee you he'll have some well deserved mental anguish every time Mother's Day, Christmas or her birthday rolls around.
Tranquil, I doubt it. Consider how far down the crazy rabbit hole a guy has to be to do that.
Just a quick scan of the daily news - on any given day - makes one wonder why there are entire cultures - or just families - that prefer males to females.
finally-a nice intelligent sentiment....so refreshing
Ruh Roh Shaggy.
Roh Roh, Mumme Roast frying high ane bery rad
What an interesting and applicable name he was given: Darwin
Indeed. Here is truly, a winner of the Darwin Award.
Oops. Was he offered his Miranda rights? And if he asked for a lawyer, did they get him one? I sense another news story in the near future.
Yup, the libtards can't wait to come to the defense of violent criminal thugs.
FlatIron72,
You gotta get over the name calling stage of your juvenile life. At least come up with a clever new name. Something like Republicons or Conservatrash.
@Babs-534459 - Is this even relevant? I would assume any cop would read the Miranda rights and asking for a lawyer does not null and void anything you say until you get a lawyer since the first line is "the right to remain silent, anything you say can, and will be used against you in a court of law".
Well, I've experminted with words like "moonbats" and "demoRats", but "libtards has more of a punch to it.
P.S. How come people like you are never around to scold name calling libtards? Another classic example of left-wing hypocrisy, I assume?
You cannot question minors without representation by an adult or lawyer.
In the fiefdom of mayopr for life Bloomberg-the police act as the mayors private army-they don't bother much with things like civil rights,or assuring that minors have an attorney,family member,or advocate over 18 to assure they are being questioned by the police.
They probabaly just kept telling the kid stuff like "we know you did this", or asking leading questions like- Why did you kill your mother?" "why did you wrap her body in a Scooby Doo blanket?" "where did you get the gun?"
Then kept at it until the kid confessed-then they asked him if he wanted a lwayer.
Should have read: "to assure they are being questioned legally,and proper procedures are being followed by the police"
Sons killing moms. That is the ultimate bottom. And not just for these people. For our whole society. When sons start killng moms....wow.
You could almost, almost, get your head wrapped around the possibility that in a moment of anger or passion a hot-headed juvenile might act out and cause injury or death to a parent. But I can't imagine being so cold as to shoot her in the back of the head, then handle the body and ultimately stuff it into a plastic bin and dump it in the tall weeds behind your shack of a house. Even the "lower" forms of animals don't do that.
you dunno...maybe she had it coming.............
Allen-2635884
If you had to kill your mom, because she had it coming, at that point, you should consider ending your lineage as well.
That comment speaks volumes about what's going on in that sick head of yours.
If I ever see anyone in the act of killing their mother, no matter what the reason, I will shoot them down dead on the spot and never see a day in jail. Try me. Same thing with baby rapers. If you are the kind of scum that can find justification for either be on notice.
That was my first thought after reading the article.
Terrible.
Another big ad boy anonymous blogger with an idle threat that will remain unfulfilled. How many people do think are going to kill their mother's or rape their babies in front of you?
But as long as you are content with your false bravado, you can rest now.
the thinker-318752
We shall see, won't we? And if you would not you are one of the scum.
yeah,thats the bottom line isn't it. WTF has gone happened to society???? so many people get off on writing these ignorant,juvenile comments.i guess they think it's a joke.what if it were THEIR mother ? but wait-----does the phrase 'birds of a feather flock together",come to mind ?
After 91 years of life, we buried our mother ten days ago. I will never understand how someone can do this to their own mother. How sad.
ah,once again it is so refreshing to hear from a person with compassion.sorry about your mother.unfortunately,there are so few of you,with nonviolent intentions,, in this cruel,evil world today.may god bless you
Me ....I am so sorry on the loss of your precious mother.
Act of anger or passion?
He shot her in the back of the head, wrapper her in a blanket and stuffed her in a storage bin. Sounds more like he had more of an idea of what he wanted to do, rather than "just acting out". Who wants to bet he's got an unregistered pistol too?
No not neccessarly. He shot her then he had to do something. The logical thing to do is to wrap her up and put her out for the trash. A thought out plan would be to kill her while they were pouring cement next door and lay her body in the wet cement or something like that.
It was an imaginary pistol. Real pistols are illegal in NYC.
In mayor for life Bloombergs fiefdom-no one except political cronies, hizzoners friends,law enforcement, and the rich and famous get handgun permits-regular citizens have about a million-to-one chance of getting a NYC handgun permit-that would mean the majority of handguns in NYC are "unregistered".
Handguns are illegal in NYC-but the mayor for life's body guards carry them.
Gun registration is not legal anyhow-at no point in the constitution does it give the government the authority to have guns registered-even Canada gave up on the gun registry scheme.
No respect. Well, he will have plenty of time to think about his actions now. His little life is over as it should be.
Not necessarily. The SC just ruled that life in prison w/o possible parole for minors is cruel and unusual.
In 2 years he could have changed his nerdy name instead of killing his mom! Moms bewared! Naming your kids jacked up, crazy names can be hazardous to your health!
What a sad story... :( I think some parts of our society are rapidly devolving towards green swamp slime...
How sad. If the police did not read him his Miranda rights or offer him a lawyer before questioning then his confession would be thrown out.
Nothing in the article suggests that the child was not read his Miranda rights. If the worst case of assumptions here play out, the confession would get tossed, but not all of the evidence against him. A conviction is sure to happen.
If guns are illegal in NY...and he confessed...why would you suspect that he hasn't had his Miranda rights read to him? Because he's a minor? He won't be charged as a minor...guaranteed. Confession won't get tossed...he knew what he was doing, which is premeditated murder.
he's 16..a few years in juvenile detetion and he will be free to collect welfare...should be tried as a "adult" but that will never happen...
We can always hope she had at least one more son that loved his mother more than his brother....
The police typically do not release the names of juvenile offenders, so the fact that the youth's name is in the media suggests to me he is looking at adult charges.
Doubt if he will collect welfare my friend---wonder why that statement was made....men are almost never able to qualify for welfare without a wife and kids......disability yes. That is why most of the homeless are men and not women.
Try again. They CHOOSE not to apply.
He just wanted his share of ADC, WIC and welfare. Another unintended consequence of the touted single mother paradigm.
Cunical, your post is ignorant, and your hateful cynicism is a reflection of your soul. Your eagerness to jump on the poor, single mothers out there, to blame them for everything wrong in our country, must have made you illiterate, too. The mother was a hard-working mom, per the article. Therefore she would not get ADC which is also the same thing as welfare. Her murdering son is 16 years old and therefore not eligible for WIC. Go away, would you?
Debra,
It said she was hard working. In the same paragraph it said if she wasn't with her kids, she was in the house. Kind of oxymoronic! Did she work from her home? I doubt it. If nobody saw her except when she was with her kids; how would they know that she worked; hard or otherwise?
People seem so surprised that someone would kill their own mother. There are plenty of bad mothers out there.
Laura, and the fact that you are speculating that this was a bad mother....interesting. Do you idiots know that many people that are poor are also NOT on any assistance? Not that is matters because many on assistance are also paying taxes working low wage jobs trying to move up, so it often balances. It is nothing wrong with working towards success and asking for a little help along the way if one parent leaves the other without the second source of income. I work in a corporate building with several dozen companies housed inside with dozens of single moms that are amazing providers and without the father. The building has martina Mondays in the bar downstairs for corporate workers in the building and the meet and greet is enlightening.....some of you are so silly. Single mothers receiving $100,000 in child support from a MAN are considered so fantastic and for what exactly????? These women I work with bought their own Infiniti/Lexus/Acuras/Mustangs and yet get no credit.....stop assuming you know who makes what and who does what based on stupid assumptions!
And I thought it was AFDC, not ADC---what is that exactly??? Ughhhh! And what shall we do with families with dependent children? Revert by to Dickensian times and allow little kids to freeze to death in the streets of Americas cities while the rich step over them and flag a manure wagon to come scoop them up? *sigh*
Hard working is a relative term. When people are expressing faux sympathy they never say she was a lazy good-for-nothing so-and-so.
No matter who she was, she didn't deserve to be shot in the head by her son.
This is just awful. No mother deserves this. My mother was abusive and abandoned me at 15. I still love her to this day and respect her as a mother. I couldn't imagine hurting her, not now or as a teenager! It takes a very sick mind to be able to do this. I hope he is tried as an adult!!!!!
Attention mothers! Naming your kids crazy, jacked up names can be hazardous to your health!
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Whew.
Thank god for the supreme court.
At least he will not have to spend his whole life in jail.
Obama / Biden in 2012.
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Interesting statement "questioned until he confessed" - no lawyer present, and a minor at that without a parent present (oops, no parent to be present). But somehow I think the "confession" isn't going to make it to the courtroom.
While this is sad. What is so bone crushing painful is when parents murder innocent children.
also-when innocent parents are killed by their children.it's ALL bad....remember the quote-(HONOR THY FATHER AND THY MOTHER)...
wow, its wierd that the name is 'Savage' Thats how this seems to have played out.
Law is not my strong suit, but how is this "second-degree" murder? Is that for spontaneous killing rather than preplanned killing?
This kind of thing happens everywhere..the media is just reporting it more..nothing new...
He's 16 and she's 34. Under 18 and unwed when she got pregnant. Probably on welfare. We're paying to breed a dangerous population of killers.
"Hardworking?" Work had nothing to do with her life, I bet. "If she wasn't with her kids she was in the house."
Doubt she was telecommuting to a high-tech job!
And how your comment wasn't "collapsed" by the community amazes me Rachel the ridiculous. So what is your excuse for the upper class corporate embezzlers, killers, rapists and pedophiles????? Enlighten me oh great one! "Probably on welfare"....LOL! I wonder how you reached this conclusion.....boy, this will be a difficult one to figure out. Sounds like you are almost happy the poor woman was MURDERED just because you think she was poor or receiving assistance. Good hell!
Gotta love those New Yorkers- The most dramatic people on the planet.