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A 16-year-old boy from Oklahoma already arrested His foster mother was found beaten to death and stuffed into a trash can, according to official documents.
Jordan Weems, who is charged with first-degree murder and other charges, admitted to police that he attacked his mother, Spring Weems, 49, with a hammer and fists, according to a new document from the Logan County District Attorney’s Office obtained by the news outlet. KFOR.
Documents state that Jordan threatened to kill his mother, then “picked up a hammer and surprised his mother in the middle of the night.”
“When his mother found him unsuspecting, he viciously and brutally attacked her, beating her more than a dozen times with a hammer and fist,” the District Attorney’s Office said.
police Spring’s body was found Wednesday at an Edmond home after she was reported lost.
According to news outlets, one of Spring’s biological children came to Jordan’s home the day before and asked where she was grow up The report cited a Logan County affidavit. Jordan said she left to help his sister care for her newborn, the affidavit states.
The biological child called his father Wednesday and asked him to come to the home “because something wasn’t right,” according to the affidavit. Spring’s father reported Spring missing to the Logan County Sheriff’s Office.
The father later spoke to one of the adopted children. According to neighbors, Spring adopted three children, including Jordan. News 9. The boy told him that Jordan “killed Spring with a hammer and she was thrown into a trash can on the street.”
Jordan was taken into custody Wednesday and admitted to killing his mother with a hammer in the garage, the affidavit said. Authorities said Jordan struck Spring “until she stopped moving” and then stuffed her body into a trash can.
Jordan was charged with first-degree murder, desecration of a human corpse and unauthorized removal of a corpse, according to KOCO. The motive for the murder remains unclear.
The District Attorney’s Office said Jordan has no criminal record. The teen “had previously been admitted to a mental hospital for suicidal ideation,” according to his father and the Logan County Sheriff’s Office, documents show.
One of Spring’s adopted sons told investigators that he and Jordan had recently gotten into trouble for sneaking out to avoid police, the affidavit said. The pair had to write letters of apology, and Jordan’s bedding was taken away and he had to put on an orange jumpsuit “to show him what life would be like as a prisoner if he didn’t start behaving,” the affidavit said.
Information about Jordan’s legal representation was unclear.