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Kill mom but don’t hurt TV

A Florida teen charged with hiring an undercover policeman to shoot and kill his mother instructed the purported hit man not to damage the family television during the attack, police said.

Police in the south western Florida city of Fort Myers arrested the boy, 17-year-old Carlos Chereza, on a charge of soliciting to commit first-degree murder.

Tipped by an informant that Chereza had offered to pay to have his mother killed, an undercover detective posed as someone willing to do the job, Fort Myers police said.

Chereza offered the detective $2,000 that he expected to inherit from his mother’s bank account, and gave him the keys to the family apartment, a map of the apartment and a picture of his mother, the police report said. He asked that the shooting be made to look like a burglary, it said.

“Carlos stated that he didn’t want anything to happen to the television,” the detective wrote in the arrest report. —Reuters

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