An eighth-grader from Hialeah, Florida, confessed to police during questioning that he killed his mother by stabbing her in the throat with a large kitchen knife in October, according to police video.
Derek Rosa, 13, is accused of brutally stabbing his mother, Irina Garcia, 39, and her newborn sister, who was unharmed, multiple times while she was sleeping in a crib in the same room on October 12. He has been indicted. Florida house.
Rosa was charged as an adult and pleaded not guilty to murder charges on October 31st.
In a recently released video of Rosa's interrogation, she confesses to being an eighth-grader with straight A's and B's after being read her Miranda rights by Hialeah Police Department detectives.
He also told investigators that he splits his time with his parents.
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Derek Rosa, 13, was questioned by the Hialeah Police Department in Florida on suspicion of killing his mother and showed detectives the size of the knife he used. (Miami-Dade State Attorney's Office)
On the day Garcia was killed, Rosa told investigators that she rode the bus to school, didn't do much work while at school, then rode the bus home and spent the rest of the day there. .
But things changed around 10 p.m.
Rosa told investigators that she went to bed around 10 a.m., just like her mother. He has his own bedroom and his mother and his sister share a room.
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13-year-old Derek Rosa is being investigated by the Hialeah, Florida Police Department for the murder of his mother. (Miami-Dade State Attorney's Office)
“I woke up, went to the kitchen, grabbed one of the knives, then went to her room, and I…” Rosa told detectives, then paused.
“It's okay, you can tell me,” one of the detectives told Rosa.
“I killed her,” he confessed.
“Did you kill her?'' the detective asked, and the boy nodded.
When Rosa was then asked about the knife, she took both of her hands and showed the detective that the knife was about a foot long, but she did not know what kind of knife it was and said it had a purple handle. Ta.
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Rosa told detectives he intended to shoot himself, but instead called 911 and asked police to come to his home. (St. Petersburg)
Asked how he killed his mother, Rosa told detectives on video that he cut her mother's neck and punctured her artery.
Garcia was asleep when she came in, and he told detectives he cursed in Spanish before “deliberately” stabbing her in the neck.
After killing her mother, Rosa said she took her stepfather's gun, loaded it with a magazine and pulled the slide back, but was unable to commit suicide.
Instead, he called a friend he had met through an online video game and told him he had killed his mother, sending two photos of his mother and one of himself.
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After Derek Rosa murdered his mother, he sent a photo to a friend. (Miami-Dade State Attorney's Office)
Rosa said her friend told her she couldn't believe what she had done. After saying goodbye to his friend, Rosa told detectives he had intended to shoot himself but ended up killing his mother, so he called 911 and asked police to come to his home. .
Detectives asked Rosa why he stabbed his mother, but Rosa said he had to go to the bathroom before answering any questions.
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After about four minutes, Rosa came back and asked me what kind of video games I played. The boy told detectives he had an XBox, a Nintendo Switch and a VR headset, and his favorite games to play were Fortnite and Call of Duty.
Detectives then revisited the question of why he had killed his mother.
“Do I have to tell you now?” Rosa asked.
“Yeah, get it off your chest,” one of the detectives replied.
“Can I wait for my lawyer?” Rosa asked the detectives.
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One of the detectives then tells Rosa to understand that he is not there to advise her on whether or not to hire a lawyer, but that the choice is hers.
The detective then asked Rosa if she wanted an attorney, as the investigation could no longer proceed at that point.
“Do you want us to stop interrogating you?'' the detective asked the boy.
“Yes,” Rosa said, and the detective finished questioning her and turned off the camera.
Rosa could go to trial next month.
