The Braselton Police Department has arrested a 15-year-old girl in the murder of her mother, who was an Army recruiter.
First Sgt. Karen Moore, 42, was killed late Wednesday evening, when her teenage daughter allegedly shot her in the back of the head with a 9mm gun while she was watching TV and using her computer, according to assistant police chief Lou Solis.
The mother and daughter had some apparent ongoing domestic issue, he added.
The daughter later asked a neighbor in The Falls of Braselton subdivision, located off Ga. Hwy. 211, to help jumpstart her Volkswagen Beetle on Thursday, according to Solis. The vehicle was still parked in the driveway on Thursday when investigators were at the scene.
That neighbor couldn’t get the vehicle started and another neighbor was asked to help the teenager with the car, according to Solis. At some point, the girl said she couldn’t wake up her mother and one of the neighbors went inside the Sahale Falls Drive residence to help.
Teen charged in mom's murder in Braselton
The neighbor saw Moore and initially thought she had a hemorrhage because of the blood around her head, Solis said. A 911 call was made and emergency workers soon arrived on the scene.
“You couldn’t see the wound in the head and (the neighbor) didn’t lift (Moore) or anything,” Solis said on Friday.
Barrow County Fire and Rescue confirmed that Moore was dead and contacted the coroner, who said she died of a gunshot wound to the back of the head, according to Braselton police. The Georgia Bureau of Investigation was asked to help with the incident.
The girl’s 17-year-old boyfriend, Christopher Nieves, also later admitted to police that he had sex with the juvenile and he was charged with having sex with a minor, Solis said.
The girl — whose name has not been released — was taken to a youth detention center in Gwinnett County.
Solis said the decision to possibly charge the girl as an adult will be decided by the district attorney.
Moore was an active duty recruiter based in Athens, according to Solis. Her husband is a sergeant major stationed in Alabama, where the couple’s son was also stationed in the military.
“You couldn’t see the wound in the head and (the neighbor) didn’t lift (Moore) or anything,” Solis said on Friday.
Barrow County Fire and Rescue confirmed that Moore was dead and contacted the coroner, who said she died of a gunshot wound to the back of the head, according to Braselton police. The Georgia Bureau of Investigation was asked to help with the incident.
The girl’s 17-year-old boyfriend, Christopher Nieves, also later admitted to police that he had sex with the juvenile and he was charged with having sex with a minor, Solis said.
The girl — whose name has not been released — was taken to a youth detention center in Gwinnett County.
Solis said the decision to possibly charge the girl as an adult will be decided by the district attorney.
Moore was an active duty recruiter based in Athens, according to Solis. Her husband is a sergeant major stationed in Alabama, where the couple’s son was also stationed in the military.
WTF?
Age of consent has nothing to do with the 18=legal adult belief.. you're a minor by laws against sex offenders under the age of 16.
.... Something is wrong with the fact that the only comment you two had to make belittled the fact that a 15 year old girl murdered her mother over puppy love.
I hope she spends the rest of her life in jail.
As far as the puppy love motive goes, sounds like a troubled family to me. Where's dad? Ah, but that would be asking a question that makes liberals uneasy.