An honor-roll Virginia student, accused of murdering his parents after they took away his iPod, pled guilty, Wednesday. He was charged as an adult on two second-degree murder counts.
Vincent T Parker, 16, killed his 55-year-old father Wayne Parker and 57-year-old mother, Carol Parker, with a crowbar, last December. He told the investigators that he was fed up with the constant punishments his parents imposed on him.
"I just remember getting mad," Parker told the court. "It's all from my dad. All this stuff like my dad taking away my iPod and stuff."
Parker, an only child, had confessed to police in December that he left school early on the day he killed his parents. He went to his Bland Street home in Norfolk, waited for his mother to come out of the bathroom and used pepper-spray on her. He said that he did not have any arguments with his mother before or during the attack. He stabbed his mother in the eye and beat her with a crowbar and then a baseball bat.
He said that he continued to beat her "until she stopped breathing." The coroner's report stated that 25 separate smashes and stabs to Carol Parker's neck, face and head were identifiable.
Parker, who did not have a previous criminal record, waited for his father to come home from work. After his father arrived, Parker assaulted him with a crowbar and stabbed him several times. However, the father survived the attack and managed to call 911. When emergency dispatch officials arrived, Parker's dad told them to go upstairs to his wife. She was pronounced dead at the scene.
The father was rushed to a nearby hospital where he was declared dead.
The teen was charged with the murders after the authorities conducted a psychological evaluation and found him to be sane and intelligent.
Allen Taylor, Parker's grandfather, told WTKR that his grandson was a smart man. "He is a smart young man," Taylor told. "He is smart in school. I don't know what happened."
He also said that he already forgave Parker. "I want him to get some type of counseling," he said. "Help him to grow up and be an understanding man. Be sorry for what he did do."
Sentencing for Parker is scheduled Sept. 19.
