WASHINGTON — A 17-year-old Clinton, Maryland, teen is dead and prosecutors are adding charges to the list his mother faces in his killing.
Originally charged with second-degree murder and assault, Angelique Chase, also of Clinton, Maryland, is now charged with first-degree murder as well as weapons charges in her son’s fatal shooting.
A first-degree murder charge indicates that Chase had premeditated malice in killing 17-year-old Christopher Perry.
Officers responded to Chase’s home, on Buckler Road, at around 9 p.m. Thursday and found Perry suffering from a gunshot wound in the living room, court documents said.
Chase and Perry got in a verbal argument after, she told investigators, he was using disrespectful language while playing video games. When Chase tried to take away Perry’s video games and cell phone, the verbal altercation allegedly became physical, a source familiar with the case told WTOP.
According to court documents, a family member in the house at the time separated the two, but was then told by Chase to go to the basement. That family member observed Chase come down into the basement where she went into a room before returning back upstairs. Moments later, the family member heard what he described as a “loud bang” and Chase on the phone telling dispatchers that her son had been shot, court documents said.
Chase called 911 after discharging the revolver, the source told WTOP.
Perry was flown to a hospital where he died, police said.
Chase waived her Miranda rights and admitted shooting her son to investigators, according to court documents.
Upon learning of his death, the source told WTOP Chase broke down and was emotional.
Chase has no prior convictions for violent crimes in Maryland. She is being held without bond at the Department of Corrections.
