[Smithy]

A 13-year-old killed his own mother after a failed attempt to rape her in a row over a ban on the Call of Duty video game, a US court heard.

The jury in the murder trial of Noah Crooks heard a disturbing 911 call during which the teenage accused, from Iowa, can be heard pouring his heart out about the killing.

Crooks, now 14 , has been charged with first-degree murder and assault with intent to commit sexual abuse on March 24, 2012.

The victim was his 37-year-old mother, Gretchen Crooks, who had taken away his “Call of Duty” video game because he got bad grades in school, it was said.

The court heard Crooks admit that it was because of the game being taken away that he snapped.

In the 911 recording made on the night of the murder at the family's home in Osage, Iowa, Crooks can be heard telling the operator: “I’m not joking at all. She’s dead. I’m scared. I killed my mom with my .22. I don’t know why I did it.”

Police responding to the call found the woman shot multiple, according to Mitchell County Sheriff's Office.

During the conversation, which lasted about 10 minutes, the boy repeated his confession several times The Global Gazette reported.

Crooks said: “I feel crazy and I know I'm not. I think I have some form of ADD.

“I tried to rape her. I tried to rape her but I couldn't do it.

“Who tries to rape their own mom? My life is down the drain now.”

He went on to say: “I just wish it was a dream so I could wake up and I could kiss her and hug her.”

Noah rambled on about his mother making him homemade doughnuts earlier that night and expressed disbelief that he killed her after she did that for him.

He then revealed that his mother had taken away his Call of Duty video game because he got bad grades in school, and that is when he snapped.

He told the 911 operator: “Something just came over me.”

The boy then spoke about having to move away and giving up on his dreams of getting into a good college and marrying his eighth-grade girlfriend.

On the first day of Crooks' trial on Wednesday, jurors also heard testimony from Mitchell County Sheriff’s Deputies Jeff Huftalin and Greg Halbach, who described the crime scene, WCF Courier reported.

Gretchen’s bullet-riddled body was found stretched out on a coach.

Her pyjama top was undone and she was naked from the waist down, Halbach said in court.

The woman was not breathing.

The deputies seized the murder weapon, a .22 caliber rifle, which was lying across a chair in the dining room.

Halbach said that he slapped handcuffs on Noah's wrists and placed him in the patrol car.

He added that the teenage suspect was not crying and did not appear emotional.

Noah Crooks' attorney is not denying that his client killed his mother, but he claims that the boy suffered what he referred to as a “tumour of rage”, rendering him insane at the time of the slaying.

Addressing the jury panel, the lawyer said that a child psychiatrist will testify that Crooks suffers from intermittent explosive disorder - a mental illness marked by repeated episodes of impulsive, aggressive or violent behaviour.

Gretchen, who was listed with her husband William Crooks as the owners of the home where she was killed, had worked as a nurse at Mercy Medical Center-North Iowa while also studying toward her master's degree after accepted at the University of Iowa in 2009.

On her Facebook page back in 2010, she praised her son, one of two sons according to Mrs Brahm, for his musical talents on the saxophone as well as his accomplishment in being accepted into a University of Iowa camp to learn Chinese.

“So proud of him!” she wrote.

She had also recently published an application on her page reading: “Click "like" if you love your son!”

What the ****

[HD]

Disgusting little ******

[Ryan57]

Guess video games will get the blame.

[BBfanUSA]

Kids today need to get bitchslapped. I'm sorry we are too soft on them. I don't understand how these parents let their kids play COD.

Also Why Did the kid rape his mum?

Also why did this happen in my state

[GypsyGoth]

Originally Posted by Ryan57

Guess video games will get the blame.

Hopefully the focus is on mental illness.

[Ryan57]

Originally Posted by GypsyGoth

Hopefully the focus is on mental illness.

I suspect the Daily Mail won't see it that way.

[arista]

USA: 13 Yr Old killed mum after attempting to rape her in row over Call of Duty

would be a better heading

[Smithy]

**** off arista, where he's from has nothing to do with it's the first reported murder in the city he was raised since 1898

[Shaun]

"I killed my mom with my .22"

... well.

[Fetch The Bolt Cutters]

sounds like patrick

[GypsyGoth]

Originally Posted by Scott

sounds like patrick

[Ramsay]

knowing the media, they will focus entirely on the fact it was over a video game and not that fact that he killed her with HIS OWN gun

[Redway]

Originally Posted by Smithy

**** off arista, where he's from has nothing to do with it's the first reported murder in the city he was raised since 1898

[Redway]

Originally Posted by Karl

knowing the media, they will focus entirely on the fact it was over a video game and not that fact that he killed her with HIS OWN gun

I'm hoping that this is a wake-up call for America re. their outdated and retarded gun laws. It's beyond a joke now.

[MTVN]

If a kid has such problems that he's going to try and rape and then kill his own mother then slightly tighter gun laws aren't going to stop him, chances are he's just going to find another means

Like Smithy said it's the first murder there for over a hundred years so pretty clear they aren't plagued with gun violence or shooting sprees

[Shaun]

so because there are other ways to kill someone we shouldn't regulate any of them?

[Redway]

Originally Posted by MTVN

If a kid has such problems that he's going to try and rape and then kill his own mother then slightly tighter gun laws aren't going to stop him, chances are he's just going to find another means

Like Smithy said it's the first murder there for over a hundred years so pretty clear they aren't plagued with gun violence or shooting sprees

Fair points, but I still maintain the belief that these gun laws are escalating an existing problem. Even if they could find another way of doing it.

But anyway, my thoughts go out to the affected family and it's painful to think that a 13-year-old could commit such a horrific crime.

[MTVN]

Originally Posted by Shaun

so because there are other ways to kill someone we shouldn't regulate any of them?

No but I don't think this one freak case is particularly indicative of lax gun laws given that it happened in a city with a very low crime rate and is clearly an exceptional crime, the sort of which you could never see coming or legislate against

[Shaun]

Originally Posted by MTVN

No but I don't think this one freak case is particularly indicative of lax gun laws given that it happened in a city with a very low crime rate and is clearly an exceptional crime, the sort of which you could never legislate against

That's true, but this is a city with a population of just over 3 and a half thousand. I'd be worried if there were more

[MTVN]

Oh right, when I heard 'city' I envisaged something a bit bigger than that lol

[Vanessa]

This is terrible! I have no words !

[Apple202]

Originally Posted by Shaun

"I killed my mom with my .22"

... well.

Originally Posted by Smithy

**** off arista, where he's from has nothing to do with it's the first reported murder in the city he was raised since 1898

[Mystic Mock]

Originally Posted by Ryan57

Guess video games will get the blame.

Yeah by 70 year old Politicians who don't have a clue.

[Mrluvaluva]

A moment of sheer unbelievable madness, but what enters a 13 year old's head to make him attempt to rape his own mother? Incomprehensible...

[Jake.]

That's crazy... ****ing hell