A 13-year-old girl was arrested last week after her father caught her trying to kill him in his sleep.
According to KWCH-TV, police officers in the city of Salina, Kansas, responded to a residence early in the morning of Saturday, November 25, following a report of an attempted murder.
The 13-year-old girl is said to have entered her parents’ bedroom armed with a pillow and a knife and then tried to suffocate her father.
The father allegedly woke up as his daughter had allegedly just placed the pillow on her face. However, he would not have noticed his daughter’s presence nor would he have understood how the pillow got there.
The teenager fled into a closet, where she remained hidden until her father fell asleep again.
She then repeated the operation, this time forcing her father to stand up.
It was only when he looked at the images from the surveillance cameras that the teenager’s father understood. He would have seen his daughter enter his room and try to suffocate him.
The girl reportedly told police she wanted to kill her parents.
Salina police arrested the teen, whose name was not released, on two counts of attempted first-degree murder. She was placed in a juvenile detention center.