POLK COUNTY, Fla. — A 17-year-old from Port Charlotte is accused of killing his mother, and investigators believe he murdered his father, too, according to the Polk County Sheriff’s Office.
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Port Charlotte teen accused of killing mom; claims she fell on a knife
During a press conference on Wednesday, Polk County Sheriff Grady Judd says 911 dispatchers received a call on Sunday, September 8, from Collin Griffith saying that he and his mother had a very long fight.
Griffith told the dispatcher his mother fell on a knife, and that she was bleeding from the neck.
As deputies arrived and started to investigate, they described Griffith’s demeanor as “calm, cool and collected.”
The medical examiner later discovered that it was “not reasonable or possible” that Catherine Griffith died from falling on a knife, Judd said.
Witnesses told deputies that Griffith dragged his mother by her hair out of his grandmother’s …