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Chris Stalinski heard screams and couldn't imagine what was happening in
the mobile home next door, where a mother lived with her teen daughter.
When Stalinski learned what law enforcement officials unraveled, it was
hard to comprehend: The mother's 13-year-old daughter and two friends
allegedly tried to kill her in her bed.
Law enforcement officials now suspect it was the third time in a matter
of hours the teens _ two girls and a boy _ had tried to kill the mother,
possibly because she was strict with a curfew and critical of the girl's
friends.
"It was just because of problems at home," sheriff's Deputy Osvaldo
Pelayes said.
The mother did not seek medical attention after the other attacks, said
San Bernardino County sheriff's spokeswoman Susan Rose, who declined to
elaborate.
`'I don't know what to say. I just can't believe it," the mother told
the Los Angeles Times in an interview at her mobile home.
She acknowledged having a troubled relationship with her daughter. She
said she called the police just over a month ago, fearing her daughter
was using drugs, the Times reported. Her daughter denied it and ran away
but returned a short time later.
She thought their relationship had improved when her daughter gave her a
hand-drawn Mother's Day card with pleas for forgiveness and
understanding just nine days before the attack.
"Mom, I know that we don't get along well and I shout at you. Please
forgive me for what I did to you, that I yell and tell you that I don't
love you, but yes I love you," the daughter said in the card, according
to the Times. "I hope you can forgive me. I promise that I will behave
well. Happy Mother's Day."
No one answered the door Wednesday at the white and tan mobile home
where Stalinski said the incident occurred.
Authorities have not released the names of the mother or the teens.
Prosecutors declined to comment about the possible filing of charges.
The arrests of the three teens for investigation of attempted murder on
Tuesday stunned Hesperia, a city of 90,000 in the Mojave Desert that
serves as a pit stop for motorists traveling between Southern California
and Las Vegas.
Mark McKinney, superintendent of Hesperia Unified School District, said
sheriff's investigators came to Ranchero Middle School on Tuesday and
pulled a boy from class.
"It's a terrible tragedy," he said. "This is our last day of school."
Neighbor Samantha Alvarez, 18, said she heard screaming and yelling next
door late Monday night and thought it might be a couple fighting.
Then, her neighbor emerged, hunched over and shouting, "they took my
daughter, they took my daughter," Alvarez said.
Alvarez said the woman said three kids came into the house, wearing
hoods and with their faces covered. She said one of them hit her in the
head with a flashlight, Alvarez said.
Initially the mother couldn't find her daughter and thought she was
missing, but later learned she was suspected in the attack.
Cathryn Galloway, a former neighbor, said the girl started stirring up
trouble when she moved into the mobile home park about a year ago.
Before then, the neighborhood kids played together nicely. But then they
started fighting and making graffiti, Galloway said.
"She had a mouth on her," said Galloway, who has a teenage daughter
about the same age.
Galloway said the girl threatened her daughter, telling her "she needs
to watch her back," at which point Galloway called the police, as
officials had embarked on a campaign to crack down on bullying. Galloway
said authorities said they would refer the case to the school police,
but she never heard more about it.
Neighbor Felipa Avalos said she was waiting for her husband to come home
from work around midnight when she heard a woman screaming and rushed
outside to help.
"She was screaming, `a phone, a phone,'" Avalos, a 30-year-old mother of
four, said. "I called the police."
Avalos said the woman told her three kids had attacked her inside her
mobile home, and one of them hit her in the head. Avalos said the woman
told her she didn't get a good look at their faces and was worried about
her daughter and wanted to go look for her.
Avalos said she learned from the media that converged on the mobile home
park that the daughter was among those suspected in the attack.
"It's something that one can't believe," she said. "I don't know what
might have happened, what the girl might have in her head to do those
things."
Copyright © 2012 The Associated Press. All rights reserved. The
information contained in the AP News report may not be published,
broadcast, rewritten or redistributed without the prior written
authority of The Associated Press.
Chris Stalinski heard screams and couldn't imagine what was happening in
the mobile home next door, where a mother lived with her teen daughter.
When Stalinski learned what law enforcement officials unraveled, it was
hard to comprehend: The mother's 13-year-old daughter and two friends
allegedly tried to kill her in her bed.
Law enforcement officials now suspect it was the third time in a matter
of hours the teens _ two girls and a boy _ had tried to kill the mother,
possibly because she was strict with a curfew and critical of the girl's
friends.
"It was just because of problems at home," sheriff's Deputy Osvaldo
Pelayes said.
The mother did not seek medical attention after the other attacks, said
San Bernardino County sheriff's spokeswoman Susan Rose, who declined to
elaborate.
`'I don't know what to say. I just can't believe it," the mother told
the Los Angeles Times in an interview at her mobile home.
She acknowledged having a troubled relationship with her daughter. She
said she called the police just over a month ago, fearing her daughter
was using drugs, the Times reported. Her daughter denied it and ran away
but returned a short time later.
She thought their relationship had improved when her daughter gave her a
hand-drawn Mother's Day card with pleas for forgiveness and
understanding just nine days before the attack.
"Mom, I know that we don't get along well and I shout at you. Please
forgive me for what I did to you, that I yell and tell you that I don't
love you, but yes I love you," the daughter said in the card, according
to the Times. "I hope you can forgive me. I promise that I will behave
well. Happy Mother's Day."
No one answered the door Wednesday at the white and tan mobile home
where Stalinski said the incident occurred.
Authorities have not released the names of the mother or the teens.
Prosecutors declined to comment about the possible filing of charges.
The arrests of the three teens for investigation of attempted murder on
Tuesday stunned Hesperia, a city of 90,000 in the Mojave Desert that
serves as a pit stop for motorists traveling between Southern California
and Las Vegas.
Mark McKinney, superintendent of Hesperia Unified School District, said
sheriff's investigators came to Ranchero Middle School on Tuesday and
pulled a boy from class.
"It's a terrible tragedy," he said. "This is our last day of school."
Neighbor Samantha Alvarez, 18, said she heard screaming and yelling next
door late Monday night and thought it might be a couple fighting.
Then, her neighbor emerged, hunched over and shouting, "they took my
daughter, they took my daughter," Alvarez said.
Alvarez said the woman said three kids came into the house, wearing
hoods and with their faces covered. She said one of them hit her in the
head with a flashlight, Alvarez said.
Initially the mother couldn't find her daughter and thought she was
missing, but later learned she was suspected in the attack.
Cathryn Galloway, a former neighbor, said the girl started stirring up
trouble when she moved into the mobile home park about a year ago.
Before then, the neighborhood kids played together nicely. But then they
started fighting and making graffiti, Galloway said.
"She had a mouth on her," said Galloway, who has a teenage daughter
about the same age.
Galloway said the girl threatened her daughter, telling her "she needs
to watch her back," at which point Galloway called the police, as
officials had embarked on a campaign to crack down on bullying. Galloway
said authorities said they would refer the case to the school police,
but she never heard more about it.
Neighbor Felipa Avalos said she was waiting for her husband to come home
from work around midnight when she heard a woman screaming and rushed
outside to help.
"She was screaming, `a phone, a phone,'" Avalos, a 30-year-old mother of
four, said. "I called the police."
Avalos said the woman told her three kids had attacked her inside her
mobile home, and one of them hit her in the head. Avalos said the woman
told her she didn't get a good look at their faces and was worried about
her daughter and wanted to go look for her.
Avalos said she learned from the media that converged on the mobile home
park that the daughter was among those suspected in the attack.
"It's something that one can't believe," she said. "I don't know what
might have happened, what the girl might have in her head to do those
things."
Copyright © 2012 The Associated Press. All rights reserved. The
information contained in the AP News report may not be published,
broadcast, rewritten or redistributed without the prior written
authority of The Associated Press.
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