“Why did you kill your mother?” asks the 911 operator. On the other end of the line, the person calling 911 is a 13-year-old teenager and he has just confessed to the murder in a broken voice. that shocked him, everyone to Hialeah, Florida.

The reasons that prompted the young man to stab him while he was sleeping are still unknown. Irina García was resting with her 14-day-old baby. The older brother did not act against the child.

– “I need to know if your mother is breathing,” says the operator.

– “Ma’am, she’s dead,” the teenager answers.

What happened on October 12, 2023 at an apartment in the Amelia Oaks complex in Hialeah is a devastating blow to the family. Reactions to the future of young people are more than divided within and outside the United States.

The teen, arrested and identified as Derek Rosa, is facing justice. The young man’s father and grandmother are asking for leniency, a second chance for the boy who, based on what the judge has announced, will be tried as an adult, American media such as Univisión report.

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The pain of the father of a minor under the age of 13

The Public Prosecution Service confirmed to Telemundo 51 that the 13-year-old boy will be charged with first-degree murder.

The boy’s father, José Rosa, is devastated by this tragedy and by what the court decision means.

He asks for a house in prison for his son. “What we are asking for is a second chance to help him grow and to know that we are here to support him,” the parent said.

The father wants to continue to stand up for his son. He assures the media that he taught Derek “good values.”

He begs for bail to be posted for him. Desperate, he confides to the judge that Derek’s grandmother “would be willing to move in with him to help with the teenager, for whom she asked for another chance,” Telemundo reports.

“He’s a good kid,” says his father, who with his 22 years of military experience really thought his son would embrace a military career and thought he wanted to be a Navy engineer.

Grandmother Isabel Acosta cries and says, “My grandson is the best child in the world.”

The 13-year-old minor pleads “not guilty”

The judge listens to arguments and the heartbreaking words of Derek’s father. He does not give in to requests.

The minor was transferred to the Metro West Detention Center in Miami on Thursday, October 26, “where the judge agreed to hold him without issuing bail.”

Part of the conversation will be known on Friday the 27th. In it, Derek, of Cuban descent, confesses that he sent photos of the crime to a friend.

Five days later, Derek, through his attorney, enters a written plea of ​​“not guilty” in a Miami-Dade court.

The legal representative takes advantage and “files a motion requesting a transfer to a juvenile prison, since, according to sources, he is currently isolated in a cell in an adult prison,” Univisión reports.

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“Why did you kill your mother?”

The question the operator asked the boy on October 12 is the question many are asking.

“The boy hasn’t said why he did it, we investigators can’t believe it, it’s very sad for our community,” Eddie Rodríguez, spokesperson for the Hialeah Police Department, told Telemundo on October 26. But the next day, Univision released clips of the 911 call, which lasted 17 minutes.

‘Why did you kill your mother?the operator asks.

“The young man answers, but the police have not made that part of the call public. He then confesses that his stepfather has two firearms, one of which is in the apartment,” the television station reported.

In the tense conversation, around 11:30 p.m., Derek says: “Ma’am, she (your mother) is dead. “I have other relatives who can take care of my sister.” He also allegedly said: “I have the gun with me, I wanted to shoot myself, but I didn’t want to.”

According to the revealed story it follows:

Dereck Rosa: Ma’am, I took pictures and said to my friend: was that wrong?

Operator: Who did you tell?

Dereck Rosa: To my friend.

When asked whether he should wait for the police, the boy answers: “I’m fine, I’m just very sad, very sad.”

Following the hearing on October 31, it has been announced that Derek will be transferred to Turner Guilford Knight Prison in Miami, Florida.

As he leaves the court, according to Univisión, a relative of Derek asks that no one get confused: “Derek is a good, affectionate, loving boy, this is not like Derek, no one knows Derek the way we know him, and this is not Derek. (He) is not an adult at all, he is still a child.”

(JO)