Mom Accused of Killing Son With Hibachi Grill
- Posted on January 15, 2011 at 3:42pm by
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QUINCY, Mass. (AP) — A woman was arraigned in a Boston hospital bed Friday on accusations that she killed her 8-year-old son and tried to commit suicide by lighting a hibachi grill inside a bedroom in their apartment.
Li Rong Zhang remained hospitalized under guard after she was ordered held without bail on a murder charge.
Li was arrested one day after her 16-year-old son found her and another son, Brandon Young, unconscious in their home in Quincy, south of Boston, authorities said. Firefighters who broke through a barricaded door into a second-floor room found the younger boy lying on the bed and his 39-year-old mother on the floor Thursday afternoon, Norfolk District Attorney Michael Morrissey said.
A preliminary autopsy was completed, and investigators were awaiting additional test results before ruling on a cause of death, Morrissey said.
“We don‘t have the medical examiner’s report, but have sufficient evidence to at least bring charges against one individual,” Morrissey said. “The investigation is ongoing.”
Investigators have determined that there were no problems with the heating in the apartment and there was no indication the hibachi grill was being used for heat, authorities said. It also didn’t appear that anything was being cooked on the grill, Quincy Police Chief Paul Keenan said.
The poisonous carbon monoxide fumes from the grill were mostly confined in the barricaded bedroom and did not reach smoke detectors elsewhere in the apartment, Keenan said.
The woman’s attorney, James Doyle, said a not-guilty plea was entered on her behalf. Li is grief-stricken in the intensive care unit, Doyle said before declining further comment.
A neighbor, Susan Sullivan, told WCVB-TV that she heard a fire alarm go off in the basement of the apartment building, but did not see or smell any smoke. She said she called the Quincy Housing Authority before leaving for work.
“When I pulled in after work, I saw the fire engine pull up, and then I saw them pull the little boy out,” she told the TV station. She said she was “devastated” and wished she could have done something to prevent the death.
In 2005, police responded to a report of a family disturbance, a verbal argument between Li and her husband, but no restraining order was obtained, Keenan said.
Morrissey said he did not know the woman’s exact condition, “but when she is capable and able to be removed she will be taken to another secure facility.”
She is due in Quincy District Court on Jan. 28.
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Comments (64)
Bunnie
Posted on January 16, 2011 at 12:13pmQuincy, Massachusetts ……..Hey liberal nut jobs… That is your people!
Report Post »stmike
Posted on January 16, 2011 at 10:42amSad for the child. An earlier post did have a point with the abortion comment. And I know ill get called racist for this but I can’t resist, I thought those people only ate cats!
Report Post »ruchamah
Posted on January 16, 2011 at 12:11pmlololol
Report Post »N37BU6
Posted on January 16, 2011 at 9:17amGood thing it wasn‘t a potbelly stove or they’d be blaming Beck.
Report Post »koyettsu
Posted on January 16, 2011 at 9:05amlol as a citizen of Wisconsin the lawyers name gave me pause and most likely the woman will be doomed.
Report Post »HairyMark
Posted on January 16, 2011 at 1:10amI hope no one in the congress?senate reads this story , I don’t wanna have to go through a n FBI background check or wait ten days to get a new grill in the spring.
Report Post »RightPolitically
Posted on January 15, 2011 at 11:19pmAnother sad, sad situation!
Report Post »blanco
Posted on January 15, 2011 at 10:04pmKeep up the good work, The Blaze. I laughed out loud at the rat in the subway video!!!! Despite what others think, you are doing a great job!!!!
Report Post »RugDog
Posted on January 15, 2011 at 8:41pmSeriously. Can the left possibly find a way to blame conservatives for this? We’ll see. They’re clever at twisting truth.
Report Post »RightPolitically
Posted on January 15, 2011 at 11:21pmAnd the reason is: They (The Left) ARE twisted themselves!
Report Post »CrazyCraig
Posted on January 15, 2011 at 8:31pmMurder by Hibachi. There should be a law against that. Maybe hibachi control is what we need. My neighbor threatened me the other day with a hibachi. Lucky for me it wasn’t loaded.
Report Post »sjohn70037
Posted on January 15, 2011 at 8:06pmDear Blaze News Editor,
Do you really think this is newsworthy? Really? I hear National Enquirer is hiring morons too.
Sincerely,
Report Post »A Conservative
Mikee T
Posted on January 15, 2011 at 8:40pmAgreed…….this isn’t worthy of commentary……..GB….get a grip on your editors….. There are a lot of sickos out there and we are in the midst of a “god less” and “amoral” society. People like Bill Maher are real happy with things……I’m not.
Report Post »SlimnRanger
Posted on January 15, 2011 at 5:57pmGod have mercy,this is so tragic to take any human life is truly bad but taking a childs life is the worst crime i can think of.
Report Post »Rodster
Posted on January 15, 2011 at 5:46pmThe mom is innocent !
I always cook with a grill in my bedroom.
Sincerely,
Benihana
Report Post »hkyfan36
Posted on January 15, 2011 at 6:08pmGood one
Report Post »SENIORCHIEF
Posted on January 15, 2011 at 5:11pmI hate to be flipent, but was she associated with the tea party?
Report Post »How the hell could anyone ever kill their own child? This women should be given the maximum possible sentence and made to live in hell for the rest of her life.
Dumbsht
Posted on January 16, 2011 at 5:19amAll jokes aside…I kinda think she is living in hell already.
Report Post »grahampink
Posted on January 15, 2011 at 4:52pmWe could ban cheat political points, but then the left would have nothing to do.
Report Post »Liberal Joe
Posted on January 15, 2011 at 4:57pmWait… Last weekend, it was bad to make political statements after something bad happened. Now, it is OK? It’s so hard keeping up with you guys.
Report Post »82dAirborne
Posted on January 15, 2011 at 5:04pmI don’t think it is okay. That’s why I didn’t do it. I think that there is more to life than politics. Not everything is Left or Right.
Some folks seem to think differently. The only free speech that needs protection is the kind that upsets others.
Report Post »Sergio Q
Posted on January 15, 2011 at 4:28pmtizz a truly sick world we live in!!!
Report Post »~”come quickly Lord ….”~
rl
Posted on January 15, 2011 at 4:24pmI guess the Feds will go after grills next…. But only honest people will have to turn theirs in….. Just like guns, only the bad guys will have grills….
Report Post »Ray from Maple
Posted on January 15, 2011 at 4:30pmAre you using the death of a child to make your point about gun control? You should be ashamed of yourself for using a tragedy to score some cheap political points.
Report Post »hkyfan36
Posted on January 15, 2011 at 5:47pm@Ray At least RL didn’t print up tee shirts
Report Post »onegodinkansas
Posted on January 15, 2011 at 6:08pm@RL You are an uncivil poster for using the occasion of the death of a child to point out that this is what the left does w/ every violent death to advance their disarmament of the citizenry! POTUS will not be pleased.
Report Post »roostercogburn
Posted on January 15, 2011 at 10:12pmrl
Report Post »You are probably right, they will start with a 5 day waiting period, after all a 5 day waiting period is reasonable right, after we get used to the 5 day waiting period they will just ban them, of course when they ban them, they will say it’s for global warming or something else.
None of my gun’s have jumped up and shot anyone, nor have any of any of my grill’s for that matter, watch out for the libritards, they refuse to deal with logic and facts, they make decisions based on emotions and feelings…
RogueAmeritarian
Posted on January 15, 2011 at 4:11pmI don’t understand this type of behavior, if you have any doubts about raising a child, then put it up for adoption!!! This is insane!!!
Report Post »COFemale
Posted on January 15, 2011 at 4:06pmNickderinger, you are so funny. NOT
This is so sad, what would make a woman kill herself and her child?
Death does not descriminate by days.
Report Post »snowleopard3200 {cat folk art}
Posted on January 15, 2011 at 4:13pmAs to what would make anyone kill themselves and their child? I honestly do not know, nor can bring anything to mind that would be conceivable in the least.
Death indeed is the one thing that is impartial to all people.
Report Post »82dAirborne
Posted on January 15, 2011 at 4:26pmPeople can rationalize just about anything if they try hard enough. (it helps if they are also insane)I have read stories about this kind of situation where notes were left. Some of these sorry individuals think that they are the only ones(s) capable of caring for their children. So if they are dead, which they will be in a few minutes, the only kind thing for them to do is to take the kids with them. You know…. So something terrible doesn’t happen to them.
We have seen clear evidence in just the past week regarding how some people are so twisted they are long past any rational understanding. As horrible as it is: Sometimes stuff happens.
Report Post »jacobstroubles
Posted on January 15, 2011 at 4:05pmYa, you gotta watch out for those Hibatichi grills,,,they’re serisouly dangerous.
We should ban them as a sign of American Unity!
Maybe the demander in cheif can can on national tv/cable and have a state of the union address
that how a sick and derranged women tried to kill her child with one of these violent evil devices,
should be banned. This would certainly be a uniting effort!
We all know how pschologicaly sick and derranged INDIVIDUALS, speak to the behavior and actions of all other rational thinking Americans, and therefore this makes such perfect basackwards sense.
Maybe we can get some thugs,,,err…ahhh,,uhmm… control freaks to write up a 2000 page piece of legislation to outlaw Hibatichi grills.
George Foreman,,better look out cause they’ll be coming after yo bling crunk, next.
Report Post »Cemoto78
Posted on January 15, 2011 at 6:38pmhate grill.
Report Post »BruceB
Posted on January 15, 2011 at 8:07pmFill out a back ground ck and a three day waiting period to buy grill/charcoal.
Report Post »Dumbsht
Posted on January 16, 2011 at 5:15amGrill don’t kill people, people kill people.
Report Post »RECOVERING-LIBERAL-IN-WOODSIDE-CA
Posted on January 15, 2011 at 4:00pmAnothe reason why differing cultures have a difficult time mixing…. our values are so different.
Report Post »Liberal Joe
Posted on January 15, 2011 at 4:43pmRacist much?
Report Post »RECOVERING-LIBERAL-IN-WOODSIDE-CA
Posted on January 15, 2011 at 4:59pmNot a racist here…. just a realist
Report Post »snowleopard3200 {cat folk art}
Posted on January 15, 2011 at 6:43pmNot necessarily that mixed families have problems.
My heritage by birth is half American-German, and half-Hindi; Jasmine was a naturalized imigrant, my birth father a 5th generation American.
Report Post »sWampy
Posted on January 15, 2011 at 6:55pmYou state a fact, liberal calls you a name. That is the way they spread their evil. They did it with abortions say you are against it, they call you a sexist. They did it with homosexuals, said it’s not normal, they call you a homophobes. They did it with evolution, you say hey this doesn’t hold water, is unproven, and you are called a flat earther. They did it with global warming, say hey look those scientists are faking data so Al Gore gets rich, they call you an evil nutjob that hates the environment.
When the hell are we going to stop shutting our mouths when evil calls us names?
Report Post »roostercogburn
Posted on January 15, 2011 at 8:57pmRECOVERING-LIBERAL-IN-WOODSIDE-CA
Report Post »You are exactly right, some “groups” never have those problems..
Liberal Joe
Posted on January 15, 2011 at 10:01pmRight…. because there is nothing racist about saying the races should not mix.
Report Post »lionslayer44
Posted on January 16, 2011 at 1:02pmlets just hope it really was a hibatchi and not a weber or they will blame Beck and Palin because weber sounds more white. on a serious note: again everyone is jumping to conclusions, what if the woman was only trying to heat the one room and it was an accident. if it was an accident isnt the loss of her child enough punishment? however, if it was on purpose well then go for the max, crimes against children are the worst kind.
Report Post »republitarian
Posted on January 15, 2011 at 3:58pmI don’t understand why suicidal people kill their children so often. Anyone?
Report Post »EgoBrain
Posted on January 15, 2011 at 4:24pmMisery loves company? I don’t know.
Report Post »jsDway
Posted on January 15, 2011 at 4:39pmNo one will like my answer – but it is ABOTION! When a mother has the ability to kill a fetus/baby in the womb, why doesn’t it just make sense for mothers to kill a child at any stage of life! NO RESPECT FOR LIFE!
Report Post »Xcori8r
Posted on January 15, 2011 at 5:16pmSame thing that drove the kid in Tucson to go wacko.. the contemporary secular angst coupled with degrees of delusion and a disconnect with positive spirituality, principles and according empathy.
Report Post »mossbrain
Posted on January 15, 2011 at 5:19pmAbotion, that’s ebonics for abortion right? Or are you talking about some homosexual love lotion?
Report Post »NickDeringer
Posted on January 15, 2011 at 3:55pmThis must be Tragedy Saturday??? A new feature of the Mercury Radio Arts.
Report Post »hkyfan36
Posted on January 15, 2011 at 4:10pmIs that a subsidiary of Ronco?
Report Post »knight1510
Posted on January 15, 2011 at 3:49pmSo sad
Report Post »snowleopard3200 {cat folk art}
Posted on January 15, 2011 at 4:12pmAgreed. This is indeed a sad story.
Report Post »Ray2447
Posted on January 15, 2011 at 3:49pmDeaths of little children, killed by their mothers is egregious, yet the taxpayer funded, domestic violence industry disingenuously tries to make us believe that women don’t abuse men too. According to the U.S. Dept of Health and Human Services and DOJ statistics, more kids are killed by neglect and abuse in a year (1,760 in 2007), than all the female intimate partner homicides in a year. Mothers are the single largest group of kid killers, according to HHS, and they have a rate twice that of fathers. Nowhere near the money is spent to protect kids from kid killing mothers as is spent by the domestic violence industry to protect women. The taxpayer funded d.v. industry is a bastion of misandrist vilification, falsely accusing men of being the overwhelming cause of d.v., and empowering violent women to commit further domestic violence. The corruption of the taxpayer funded, domestic violence industry is characterized in “Los Misandry” at Youtube. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SAmOxvudpF8
Report Post »hkyfan36
Posted on January 15, 2011 at 3:48pmShe was trying to wok the dog
Cemoto78
Posted on January 15, 2011 at 4:51pmQuick, congress, outlaw grills.
SoCalWalt
Posted on January 15, 2011 at 5:15pm“Wok the dog.” Bwa-ha-ha-ha! Good one!
Bounder
Posted on January 15, 2011 at 8:17pmNot funny. A child is dead because of that lunatic.
Report Post »roostercogburn
Posted on January 15, 2011 at 8:54pmFunny one, wok the dog, liberalism will kill you if you let it.
Report Post »scoter
Posted on January 15, 2011 at 11:46pmYou said it the best. This was a good one. Thank’s
Report Post »scoter
Posted on January 15, 2011 at 11:56pmYou said it the best. Thank’s
Report Post »My Sacred Honor
Posted on January 16, 2011 at 1:28amNo, “wok the dog” is not funny here. At all.
Report Post »My Sacred Honor
Posted on January 16, 2011 at 1:30amAnd you should repent and think about that post as soon as you are able to pray. That post was as wrong as they come.
Report Post »walkwithme1966
Posted on January 16, 2011 at 7:30amFunny line – HFYFAN36 – actually even with this being a serious subject – you will have to admit that the headline is rather funny! http://wp.me/pYLB7-wu
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