Missouri Mother Confesses Shooting, Stabbing 16-Year-Old Son in St. Charles

Krista Roy, a 47-year-old mother from St. Charles, Missouri, has been charged with first-degree murder and armed criminal action for fatally shooting and stabbing her 16-year-old son while he slept. Police responded to welfare check requests after friends had not heard from the boy for several days and found him dead in his bed with multiple gunshot and stab wounds. Roy confessed to shooting her son multiple times and then lying in bed with him, caressing him as he called out to her, before stabbing him to "put him out of his pain." She had obtained a pistol from her ex-husband's home with the intent to kill both her son and herself, and she was later detained after a suicide attempt and hospital release. The victim's friends described him as someone who loved life and was not suicidal, while characterizing his mother as "strange" and minimally involved in his life. Roy remains held on a $1 million cash-only bond as the investigation proceeds.