Someone once said, if you have friends you don't need enemies. This boy's best friend came over to his house to console him after his mother was found dead. Turned out he was her killer. If you found this out what would you think or say?
A teenager in Topeka, Kan., said he invited his best friend over to help him cope after he found his mother murdered at home, only to discover later that the friend was caught on security tape as the alleged killer. Amadeus Ballou-Meyer, 16, was charged with the murder of Hester Workman, 46, in southwest Topeka last month. Ballou-Meyer is the best friend of Workman's son, Dillon Jay, 16.
Jay, who had been at work when the alleged killing took place, came home to find his mother laying in the garage of their home on April 24. Police arrived at the home to find Workman unconscious with severe trauma to her head, WIBW reported. She was pronounced dead at the scene.
The next day, Jay said he invited Ballou-Meyer over to his house as a distraction to deal with his mother's death. At that time, Jay said Ballou-Meyer hugged him and offered his condolences.
"I hung out with Amadeus the day after it happened," Jay told KSNT in a report published Tuesday. "He hugged me and told me he couldn't imagine what it was like to lose a parent."
Later that week, Jay told KSNT that he had watched a neighbor's security camera footage and saw Ballou-Meyer allegedly running from Jay's home with a baseball bat on the day of Workman's death. On April 27, Topeka police identified Ballou-Meyer as the suspect and arrested him on charges of felony murder, first-degree murder, burglary, theft and obstruction.
"This man's been to my house three days a week for months," Jay told KSNT NEWS.
How would you feel if it turned out the murderer of your mother was your best friend?
What would you consider a good reason for someone to kill your mother? I mean besides her being an abusive mom? But what business is that for someone to kill her instead of calling the cops instead?
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