A Nevada teenager shot her father and young brother because she ‘couldn’t resist the urge to kill somebody’, police said.
Mashenka Reid, 17, has been charged with murder over the February 9 shootings at the family’s home in Reno.
Police were called to the apartment complex at around 4pm after receiving a 911 call from Reid and another neighbor who heard gunshots, according to court documents obtained by the Reno Gazette-Journal.
‘I shot my dad,’ the teen told a dispatcher during the call . ‘I shot my brother. My brother is dead. I just couldn’t resist the urge to kill somebody.’
When officers arrived they found a ‘four or five-year-old male juvenile lying on a couch in the living room’ with a gunshot wound to the head, according to the court filings. Her two-year-old sister was located unharmed in a locked bedroom.
Mashenka Ann Marie Reid, 17, is accused of shooting her father and young brother before telling officers she ‘couldn’t resist the urge to kill someone’
Reid’s father was discovered in the garage with wounds in his chest and back. A handgun was located where the teenager allegedly told 911 dispatchers she had dropped it.
EMS workers arrived at the scene shortly after police and pronounced both victims dead. The Washoe County Medical Examiner has not released either of their identities as of Wednesday.
Reid’s two-year-old sister was found unharmed in a locked bedroom after an officer kicked open a door in the back.
However in a police interview, Reid told officers she planned to break into the room and either ‘shoot or stab her’, the Reno Gazette-Journal reports.
She also told the officer there was a knife on the family’s washer and dryer, which she was going to ‘utilize to kill’, according to the report.
When asked what triggered her, Reid said she had been feeling upset about her mom running away. She told officers she had not spoken to her since December 15.
The report also stated that Reid told police she frequently was asked to watch her siblings while her dad was at work and that her brother has autism.
‘I asked her how she felt about being at home with the kids Monday through Friday throughout the week leading up the incident and Mashenka responded saying she got more and more angry from listening (to her brother) screaming,’ the report said.
Police found Reid’s father dead in a garage while her brother, who was described as aged ‘four or five’ was found dead on the sofa with gunshot wounds to the head
The teen’s two-year-old sister was located unharmed in a locked bedroom after police kicked down the door. Reid later told police she had planned to ‘shoot or stab’ the child
Reid told police she had been watching YouTube videos which gave her thoughts about torturing people.
On the day of the shooting, Reid had asked her dad to go to the store to buy items to make pizza to ‘stall for time’ to allow her to prepare to use the Walther PPS gun, according to the report.
She said her father had shown her how to use the weapon a couple of years previously.
Once he left, she looked up how to deactivate the safety and load it. When he returned, she shot her father ‘two arms length’ from the door as he entered the garage, police said.
She then went into the room where her brother was on the couch using a tablet and shot him twice in the head, according to the court documents.
The teen allegedly told police she thought about stabbing herself but decided it was too merciful and she deserved worse.
Reid is being charged as an adult with two counts of open with a deadly weapon and one count of attempted murder with a deadly weapon.
She is currently being held in the county jail with a bail hearing set for Thursday.
A woman claiming to be the victims’ relative posted a tribute to the father and son on her Facebook page a few days after the tragedy.
Kimberly Reid said: ‘Pray for comfort for my dad’s side of the family, we lost my cousin and his son in a double homicide.
‘The details are very sensitive and all is still not clear. Rest easy cuzzy and Lil man.’
