Joseph Alexander was charged with tried capital homicide, aggravated residential housebreaking, interference with first-degree emergency communications and third-degree home battery following the alleged assault.

So … why’d he do it? Causes involving his cat, apparently.

The alleged incident went down round 6:45 within the morning on March 24 in Rogers, Arkansas. On the time, sufferer Mary Alexander, Joseph’s mom, allegedly heard the household cat meowing and obtained as much as let it outdoors.

Mary stated she “felt like her eardrum had popped and noticed blue,” per a possible trigger affidavit by way of FOX 24, 5 Information On-line and Regulation&Crime. “After I did, I obtained popped two extra instances; it was an arrow protruding of my head,” Mary — who survived — reportedly informed police later.

After listening to his spouse scream, Mary’s husband Mike stated he discovered their son standing over Mary with a crossbow. Per the affidavit, Joseph took their telephones and make his father wire him $3,400 by way of CashApp and Bitcoin, earlier than demanding logins to their financial institution accounts. When Mike stated he did not know the information, Joseph allegedly yelled at his mom — nonetheless on the bottom — for the code.

“It is advisable to give me what’s mine, or else I will must go to the following degree,” Joseph allegedly yelled at his father. “I will take issues into my very own fingers, and Dad, you do not need me to try this.”

Mary later informed police she additionally heard her son inform her husband at one level, “I will not kill you as a result of that will probably be a double murder.” She stated that she performed lifeless.

Mike allegedly then obtained his son into the storage and tried to calm him down. Throughout that interplay, Joseph allegedly stated, “Don’t be concerned about it, Dad, she’s lifeless.” Once they had been within the storage, Mary — very a lot not lifeless — was in a position to attain her walker, get out of the home and go to a neighbor’s with out being observed.

The neighbor then known as police, earlier than first responders discovered her on the neighbor’s residence with a number of arrows in her face and head.

After main police on a high-speed pursuit in his father’s automotive, Joseph allegedly crashed the car and was tased, earlier than taken into custody.

He allegedly informed paramedics that he shot his mom, saying he grabbed a “toy crossbow” and fired as a result of she made an upsetting remark whereas he was petting the cat. He later informed investigators he broke into the house via his outdated bed room window, earlier than explaining his motive .. or lack thereof.

“I did not have a cause; I simply misplaced my cool. I awakened, and I believed that she was, like, going after my cat for some cause,” he reportedly stated. “I simply, like, actually simply stood up and misplaced my s–t due to my cat.”

“You shot your mother within the head thrice due to a cat?” requested the detective, as Joseph allegedly replied, “Ya, like that’s the greatest course of I perceive of what occurred.”

“It didn’t go in all the best way, and she or he was simply laying there screaming, so I pulled it again and did it once more,” he is quoted as saying.

Joseph is being held on $750,000 bond forward of a June 9 court docket date.