How does a young man say “I Love You” to his mother? Flowers? Candy? How about fending off her attacker and slaying the man? Yeah, extra points for originality.
When the boy, whose name was not released in this article, heard his mom’s screams, he ran to the kitchen of the boarding house where they live and found a fellow boarder pinning her to the floor and choking her. That’s when the boy picked up a knife…
According to the boy, he kept screaming "stop" at the attacker, all the while swinging the knife. The man would not stop. When police arrived the attacker was still alive and combative, but bleeding heavily. The man later succumbed to his wounds in the hospital.
I remember vividly a story from my childhood about a mother lifting a car off her pinned son. The message seemed to be, “Hey boys, your mama would do anything for you, so stop giving her lip.” Now with this episode of a son’s sacrifice, I think all boys can now say to their moms, “Let’s call it even.”
The story doesn’t end there, though: the boy may still be charged with homicide.
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