A Chicago mother fatally shot her 12-year-old son in the head on Saturday morning, angered by a missing memory card, prosecutors allege.
Fallon Harris, 37, was charged with first-degree murder after the death of her son, Kaden Ingram, at her South Chicago home. Kaden was found unanswered on the kitchen floor with several gunshot wounds to the head and prosecutors alleged Sunday in court that Harris was caught in a home security system firing the second and fatal shot.
At a court hearing Sunday, Cook County State Attorney Eugene Wood alleged the incident began Saturday morning when Harris confronted his son over the whereabouts of a memory card. digital that he had taken out of his car Friday night. Wood didn’t say what was on the memory card.
According to prosecutors, the situation escalated when Kaden told his mother he did not know where the memory card was. Harris allegedly aimed a silver revolver at the boy and fired a non-lethal shot at his head. Wood said audio tests recovered from the home’s security system revealed the first shot left the 12-year-old boy “conscious and crying.”
Prosecutors alleged that while Kaden was lying injured on the floor, Harris received a phone call and then asked for the memory card again. In an incident, Wood claimed he was clearly trapped in the security camera, Kaden told his mother again that he did not know where the memory card was and then fired a second fatal shot at the 12-year-old.
At the time, Wood claims Harris called two family members and admitted he had shot his son over the missing memory card. These relatives called the police and the boy’s father, who met with officers at the crime scene. When they entered, Harris allegedly confessed to the shooting.
He now faces a single case of first-degree homicide.
Lavell Ingram, the boy’s father and Harris’ estranged husband, told Chicago Sun-Times that there have long been concerns about his mental state. Ingram said Harris had attended his first therapy session on Friday, just a day before the alleged murder.
“We didn’t know this was going to happen,” the boy’s father told the newspaper. “We told him to ask for help. I guess he finally got to the boiling point … He loved it [Kaden] more than anything in the world. “
Ingram said Kaden loved professional wrestling, video games and history, before explaining it. Sun-Times: “I lose a young god. I lose a young genius … I lose everything I had in this world. All “.
Wood noted that Harris, who has been working as a city worker, had been showing what he described as “paranoid behavior” in the months leading up to the alleged murder. In the hours following his arrest, Wood said Harris broke up and asked, “Can I talk to my mom?”
Ingram said of his estranged wife, “I don’t even think he understands what happened.” If Harris is found guilty, he faces a possible life sentence.