CHICAGO (WBBM NEWSRADIO) -- A 37-year-old Southeast Side mother is being held without bond at Cook County Jail after being accused of fatally shooting her 12-year-old son over the weekend in their home.
Fallon Harris, 37, is charged with first-degree murder in the death of her 12-year-old son Kaden Ingram.
According to Cook County State’s Attorney Eugene Wood, Harris shot her son in his head Saturday morning in their home in the 8000 block of South Bennett Avenue. It happened after she accused him of taking a digital memory card she had removed from her car the night before.
After Kaden was unable to produce the memory card when his mother demanded it at gunpoint, she shot him, Wood said Sunday during Harris’ initial court appearance.
A witness found the boy unresponsive with a gunshot wound to the head at about 10:30 a.m. Saturday, police said. He was pronounced dead at the scene.
Harris was taken into custody shortly after the shooting, which appeared to be a case of domestic violence, according to police.
Harris’ court-appointed attorney described her client as a lifelong Cook County resident, who has worked as a Chicago Department of Transportation laborer “for some time now.” City records show that she’s employed by the CDOT at the rate of $45.90 an hour, the Sun-Times reported.
Wood said family has told him Harris has exhibited “paranoid behavior”. Family told the Sun-Times that Harris saw a therapist for the first time the day before she allegedly killed her son.
“We didn’t know that this was going to transpire,” Lavell Ingram, Harris' estranged husband and the boy’s father, told the Sun-Times. “We had told her to get help. I guess it finally reached its boiling point.”
A judge ordered Harris held without bail. She was next due in court Monday. The judge also signed a health care order allowing Harris to be evaluated.
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