A teenager hacked his mother to death with an ax after she confiscated his tablet to force him to do his homework, Russian police said.
The 15-year-old, who has not been named, reportedly hit her repeatedly on the head as she lay in bed at her home near Moscow.
He then ‘cut her off’ before nailing her bedroom door shut and calmly heading to her local shop in the village of Krasnaya Storozhka to buy chocolate.
The boy is believed to have played Minecraft before reporting to police in nearby Sergiev Posad, about 46 miles northeast of Moscow.
The dead woman has been identified as Alexandra Gabbasova, 48, an accountant at a furniture factory.
Alexandra Gabbasova, 48, photographed with her son when he was little
The 15-year-old, who has not been named, reportedly repeatedly hit Alexandra (pictured) on the head as she lay in bed at her home near Moscow.
She was worried that her son was playing online games for up to 12 hours a day and neglecting his schoolwork.
“His mother discovered that the 15-year-old boy had neglected his homework while on sick leave (from school) and made a scene,” media outlet Mash reported.
‘She took away all his cables, his phone and his tablet.
‘The teenager was offended, found an ax and cut his mother with it.
“Then he went to the police and confessed to killing her.”
Officers said she had been killed four hours before they arrived at the scene.
The boy hit his mother “randomly and chaotically” with the axe, according to Telegram 112.
After buying chocolate and playing, he used the search engine to find the nearest police station and reported that he had killed his mother.
The 15-year-old boy is in custody and his teachers have described him as a “calm” student who “studies normally.”
Alexandra Gabbasova, 48, photographed with her son when he was little