Teen Killed Dad For Banning MySpace

MESA, Ariz. -- A teenager who confessed to killing his father last month told police he hated his dad for taking away his Internet access, according to a police report released Wednesday.

Hughstan Schlicker, 15, called 911 on Feb. 6 and told the dispatcher he had just shot his father in the head with a 12-gauge shotgun.

"I hate my dad, couldn't take it anymore," he said, according to the report.

Schlicker told police his father had taken away his Internet access after seeing suicide threats the teen had posted on social networking Web site MySpace.com

Schlicker had posted the threats in January; friends in Florida had seen the postings, talked him out of killing himself and called Mesa police. Police said they told Schlicker's mother about the threats; she allegedly told them she wasn't worried and promised to lock up any guns in the house.

Schlicker said he often spent entire days on MySpace and couldn't cope when his father cut off his access to the site.

"It felt like I was stabbed with a knife and it went straight through and … no matter how hard I pulled, I couldn't pull out the knife," Schlicker said, according to an interview transcript in the police report.

Schlicker said that on the day of the shooting, he called in sick from school by faking his father's voice.

At one point during the day, Schlicker said, he went to the garage to get a drink and found his father's shotgun and ammunition lying on the counter.

Schlicker said he took the gun to his room, intending to kill himself in front of his father when his father arrived home. He later changed his mind and decided to kill his father first, then kill himself, according to the police report.

Schlicker told police he had decided that if his father came home after 4 p.m., he wouldn't carry out his plan; when his father came home early, at 2 p.m., Schlicker was waiting on the stairs with the shotgun, according to the report.

Schlicker said he waited till his father was in the kitchen, then walked up behind him and shot him in the back of the head.

After the shooting, Schlicker said, he called a female friend and told her he had killed his father and was about to kill himself. Schlicker said she talked him out of it and convinced him to call police instead.

Schlicker expressed remorse during a police interview, telling detectives "I wish I didn’t do this," and "I miss Dad."

During the interview, Schlicker portrayed his father as a loving man who only wanted the best for him and who used to take him on hunting trips.

"Me and my dad would go squirrel hunting," Schlicker said, according to the interview transcript. "Apparently he trusts me with a rifle."

Schlicker was charged with first-degree murder and will be tried as an adult.



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well, there's one fetus that should have been aborted...

 

It's sad that the father is dead....but :lol:

 

lil psycho..

 

that's pretty much how i feel about it too...


i don't understand how someone can spend all day on myspace. there's really not that much to do on there that i'm aware of

 

wow that's insane.. I heard of a kid setting his parents bed on fire while they were sleeping for taking away his c.d's.. little cereal killers in the making..

 

well that was a reasonable reaction...

 

Hughstan, we have a problem.

 

this kid should have been pre-beaten
seriously

 

Someone on FaceBook is going to try and top this just for the story.

Sad.

 

he was already out of his mind. his parents shouldn't have been so stupid and ignoring the problem, nor should they have left the gun and ammo out KNOWING that there was a problem.

it's like blaming music for suicide.

 

He should have thought before killing his father that he might miss him. That kid was sick.

 

Yeah, well said. Maybe you shouldn't ignore potentially crazy people and leave weapons around them.

Can't really blame it all on the parents though. Kid is fucking cukoo.

 

What are the odds he was on ritalin or some other pill.

10 to 1 i bet.

 

well you can't blame it on them, but they do bear some responsibility. Personally, I don't find this story funny in the least. He obviously made several very clear calls for help that he did not recieve. Lets stop stigmatizing psychotic people, and stop using them for poster children of evil to feel better about ourselves. Lets recognize them as worthy human beings and give them the help/love they need before its too late.

 

At the same time I agree with you KC, alot of parents cant see in their children, what an outsider would see. Its veyr unfortunate.

 

This is true cate, but I think its a good rule all around not to leave out shotguns and shells, whether or not you think there is a problem.

 

Pople never went crazy before psychiatry. Fact.

 

oh, well agreed 100%

 

Despite my use of the phrase, fucking cukoo, which I stand by...

I agree with you.