
Background: The Hamptons neighborhood, Auburndale, Fl. (Homes.com/YouTube). Insets top to bottom: Collin Griffith, knife used to murder Catherine Griffith (Polk County (Fla.) Sheriff’s Office).
A teenager who killed his father in Oklahoma — but avoided prosecution because he claimed self-defense — is now facing first-degree murder charges in the stabbing death of his mother in Florida.
Collin Griffith, 17, is behind bars in Polk County after allegedly killing his mother Catherine Griffith, 39, on Sunday, Polk County Sheriff Grady Judd said at a press conference on Wednesday. The slaying took place in The Hamptons, a 55-and-over community in Auburndale some 50 miles east of Tampa, where Griffith’s grandmother is a resident.
Judd described a 911 call from Griffith himself on Sunday, in which the teen said that he and his mother “had a very long fight and she fell on a knife.” She was bleeding from the neck, Judd recalled Griffith saying.