Teen not criminally responsible in murder
Repeatedly stabbed mom to death believing she was devil
Krystina Armstrong, killed by her son Luke. Supplied photo.
BRAMPTON - A psychotic teen who fatally butchered and then nearly decapitated his loving mother because he believed she was the devil was found not criminally responsible Friday.
“This is clearly a tragedy caused by very serious mental illness,” said Justice Bruce Durno after Luke Armstrong, 18, pleaded not criminally responsible by reason of mental disorder to the April 30, 2010, slaying of his mother Krystina Armstrong, 54, in Caledon.
Luke was charged with second-degree murder.
He will remain in a secure psychiatric facility until he is deemed safe to return to society, court heard.
Armstrong was driving his Volkswagen while he inflicted more than 100 wounds against his mother.
Luke plunged the knife with such force into his mom’s skull and left arm that three pieces of the blade apparently broke off upon impact, court heard.
He nearly crashed head on with a 2000 Buick Regal as he was going northbound on Simpson Rd., court heard.
Police found Luke kneeling on the driver’s seat and OPP Const. James Shay saw the lifeless body of Krystina Armstrong in the passenger seat.
“Is she dead? She’s the devil. Step on my cell phone, she used my cell phone. She tried to stab me. I killed the devil,” Luke told Shay when he found the killer, his face and body splattered in his mother’s blood.
Luke later urged officers to kill his mother and added he “did kill her for mankind.
“I have committed two sins, that of murder and honour thy mother and father...I felt it had to be done,” he later said.
Luke later said an Eminem song “told him to drown his mother, but I stabbed her with a butterfly knife first.”
In reading an agreed statement of fact, Crown attorney Lowell Hunking detailed the tragic tale of the mentally ill teen who also suffers from Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) and his dedicated mother, who struggled to raise him since he was a troublesome youngster.
The killing occurred on the day she and her estranged husband were selling their McCauley Dr. matrimonial home in Caledon and she was moving into a new south Bolton home that day.
On the morning of the tragedy, Luke said told two school-mates who weren’t talking about his family, that “I haven’t seen my mother in months.”
On the same day he killed his mom, Luke expressed his fear of world control by the Illuminati “and that the people who were against him were on his ‘mother’s side,’” said Hunking.
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