MOBILE, Ala. (WALA) – Police say they’re at a loss to clarify why a mom fatally shot her teenage son within the again late Monday.

The taking pictures occurred simply earlier than 11 p.m. within the 2000 block of Jones Lane in Mobile’s Plateau group. An ambulance rushed the 13-year-old boy to the University of South Alabama University Hospital, however he didn’t make it.

Police charged the mother, Glenda Marie Agee with homicide. She is being held at Mobile County Metro Jail.

Mobile has seen its share of teenage taking pictures victims over the previous couple of years. But Cpl. Ryan Blakely stated it’s not day-after-day a toddler dies by the hands of a mother or father.

“It is unusual. … This is a first for me at this time,” he stated.

Agee appeared distraught Tuesday afternoon as police pushed her wheelchair towards a patrol automobile to take her to jail. “God, no,” she stated.

Agree, 53, swatted away at reporters making an attempt to speak to her.

“I love my baby,” she stated, righting again tears. “Get away from me. Get away from me.”

Police stated Agee was not utilizing a wheelchair in the course of the taking pictures and was not injured in the course of the incident or her arrest. But they stated they allowed her to make use of a wheelchair Tuesday as a result of she is frail.

Neighbors described the sufferer as an excellent child, residing in a house that police incessantly visited. One lady noticed the aftermath of the taking pictures.

“When I came home, I just seen it, and when I went through there, I just seen the door wide open,” she stated. “I just hate this happened to the little boy. He was a good, little boy. He just got picked on all the time and he had a troubled family. He just had a troubled life all the time.”

Agee has been arrested dozens of occasions relationship again to the early Nineties, charged with offenses starting from reckless endangerment to public intoxication to home violence to driving inebriated.

Mobile police stated within the final two years, alone, officers have been referred to as to Agee’s tackle 34 occasions for causes as different as 911 hang-ups, assault complaints and medical emergencies.

Another neighbor stated the sufferer generally performed together with her youngsters.

“I wish he had been in a better situation,” she stated. “The situation he was in, for a child, it was the wrong situation. Because he couldn’t have grown up like the child should have.”

A person within the neighborhood stated he has seen police at Agee’s home many occasions however by no means questioned that she beloved her son.

“She loved him, and he loved her,” he stated. “For her to kill him, she couldn’t have been in her right mind.”

Agee was out on bond on the time of the taking pictures, charged with reckless endangerment and second-degree assault of a Prichard police officer in January. The Mobile County District Attorney’s Office on Tuesday requested a choose to revoke that bond primarily based on the homicide arrest.

Just earlier than police drove her away, FOX10 New requested Agee if this was self-defense.

“No,” she stated, as officers positioned her within the again seat. “I love my child.”

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