so he's pretty banged up on his back and
on his arm can you explain those where
those might have come from on his arms
and on his back for what on April 26th
2023 in Florida police responded to a
call in reference to an armed assault
when they arrived they spoke with a
juvenile who claimed his mother attacked
him with a metal bat what's up man
what's going on U my mom she beat up my
sister uh chased her around outside with
the metal I think she hit her I'm not
sure and I tried to take up her and she
uh she hit me in my back let me see your
back she hit me like right here okay and
she hit me in my arm and then my elbow
area right here okay y with the bat look
me a metal baseball bat okay what's your
mom's name uh Jana Smith Maria Smith
she's inside right now Maria Smith okay
all right do me favor just stay right
here do you mind waiting with him sir
yeah I told him I told him he can sit on
my porch if you want yeah my part will
be here in a minute just wait right here
right cuz we have to get a statement
from you
there
for 14 victim has bruises his back and
right
for 23 try to contact M apparently she
still has a
that uh 192 one do you have less
lethal Maria
West pal Beach
Poli
window someone's coming out come out
with your hands up please come out with
your hands up please what am I doing
that for I just come out with your hands
up she's good what are you stop out this
way what am I this okay
in my kids are in the house hold on here
what is happening here what am I doing
this for
relax you explain everything DET
detained for what expain okay they're
are all upstairs one's in the bathroom
there's three of them in there just call
them out just call them out
please come over here I can s over here
I don't need to be in view of everybody
else now why am I being detained
how old are the kids my 15-year-old's in
the shower my daughter is 10 and my son
is
eight once in the
shower what am I being detained
for based on our
call which was what how many kids do you
have my 17-year-old is somewhere running
around here with the BB gun okay hi
sweetheart come on down for us you're
not in trouble not in trouble come on is
anybody else
upstairs who else is it
you step
right come on
buddy come on buddy it's okay it's okay
buddy come on it's all
right it's okay come on buddy it's
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okay that's
the come here stand right here
what's your
name
huh you stand right there for me you're
not in trouble come on buddy for me
what's your name
Buddy what are the legal reasons just
like your rights as a person okay well
then you should explain them to me then
we well
where the kids
at bring you over there come over here
we walk over she stay here I'll stay
with her hey
bud what's going on oh came me with the
back being on my sister where did she
hit you with a bad in my back area right
here right here and on my shoulder okay
you want to see Medics oh yeah they're
here two bra one you can lift traffic we
have one detained in medic it's clear
for
medic I don't know if my sister so I
don't know what happened to her she she
yeah we're going to we're going to talk
to
her she smashed my phone call what what
did she do this for nothing no it it was
really my little brother he cried over
some cereal he went and hit my little
sister he hit my hit my sister and uh
she retaliated back and said don't hit
me and you know my mom she's more
lenient with the little ones the two
little ones so she went back and forth
from my sister uh put her out the house
saying oh she don't want it I told you
you could have stayed with your dad I
don't want y'all
here this your dad dad
hello hold on hello yeah what happened
uh she hit me with the metal bat in my
back lower back area I think like middle
back are she hit me in my arm and my
shoulder uh I ran outside she's Tri want
a BB gone on me I took it and it was a
rifle I threw it in the lake and uh she
she threatening me with the bat again
she got I'm telling Jalia to unmute the
phone cuz she was on the phone with
gramy to so I could tell her to explain
everything to her and you know she just
kept coming out back and forth with the
bat threatening me so I just had to come
to the neighbor and I I tried calling
you and I call the
police did you tell them that she had
your sister with the yeah yeah I told
them yeah I did and she like beat her up
outside and threw her around in the dirt
and
stuff
talking in trouble what did you do
nothing nothing he's saying I'm in
trouble because she hit me with the
back okay yeah so I just ran to the nail
I tried she said she said um that I'm
going to f up your sister if you say
anyone to anybody you're next that's
what I told you on my phone she yeah she
smashed my phone with the bag uh
yeah so after I said after she said I
said you're not going to hit her with
that back and then she said what are you
going to do about it I said you're not
going to hit her with that back hey
buddy buddy what what's your
name I'm back he's okay right now he's
with
us yeah I I got to I got to call you
back they're they're going to talk to me
I got to call you back all
right so so what's your name is all
right so all right so what happened uh
you know going to uh so my little
brother he went to get some cereal or
something and he was complaining about
milk and whatnot and um my sister uh I
she said something to my little brother
my little brother ended up hitting her
so he uh she was like don't hit me and
my mom is more lenient to there's two
other little ones in there she's more
lenient with those two so she's going to
take their side but she going back and
forth from my sister telling her why are
you still back here I told to stay with
your dad uh she
um what she then put my sister
outside uh I guess they were arguing and
she uh went and grabbed the back she
went and uh grabbed the metal bat and
went outside and chased my sister around
and I guess they were talking for a bit
and uh it went left or something and
they just started fighting and then she
started you know putting her in the dirt
and then uh she went back inside to grab
the metal bat and she told me uh if I if
I I'm going to I'm going to go out there
and F her up and if you say anything
you're next and I said you're not going
to hit my sister with that bat and she
said what are you going to do about I
told her you're not going to hit her hit
her with that bat you're causing all
this drama for nothing you're not going
to hit her so then she said you could
leave too you can go upstairs and pack
all your stuff and I'm going in there
I'm getting my gathering my stuff I
guess she goes back outside to fight my
little sister again and
I come back downstairs she come in the
door saying uh you both you need to
leave you need to leave and uh I said
leave for what what did I do what do we
even do she said I don't want you and
your sister here this is just all drama
I just want peace and my sanity and I
said uh your sanity this isn't gaining
your sanity and uh I said like this
isn't right what you're doing and she
said mother eer and she went and grabbed
the uh bed and told me to get out and I
was already on the phone with my dad
wanted him to hear everything that was
going on so you could be my witness and
uh you know uh she I tried running over
to the couch area and she swung at me
and hit me in the back with the backat I
tried jumping over the couch she hit me
in my arm and in my uh elbow and I ran
outside and I was just yelling at her
and she uh what I think she tried she
tried to grab the it was a BB gun rifle
in the corner she tried grabbing it on
me and I grabbed it from her and I threw
it in the lake and I said um what you're
doing isn't right at all to us and my
sister on the phone with my grandma and
she M the phone and I tell her M the
phone I need to talk to Grammy and as
I'm telling her to do this I said unlock
the gate please I need to talk to my
grandma you got injuries or anything oh
yeah let them check you out um just by
looking on I tell there's not really
much going on you want to go to the
hospital we can take you but I think
they're just going to they would just
x-ray you and send you back you know I
would let you know if I thought that
something was off or something was
broken okay you want to go
huh you want to go to the hospital with
fire
rescue I don't think there just major
but you I got hit at the midal B so okay
so we're going to go we're going to go
now
ready we'll meet you down there at the
hospital okay yeah so where did you get
hit you show where you got hit right on
your back phot yeah let me get photos
right here
big see the redness there right
there is it working there we
go and you sit on your arm where at
and then here my elbow CH me take a
photo of his face as well will you pull
down your
mask I need to take my glasses
off you don't have to but it
would try to push your dress
back
okay
yep try he don't all right they going to
take you to the hospital grandma he's
going to St Mar St
Mar's come with all right tari did she
hit your sister with the bat at all I
think so I don't know
but see in you yeah he grabbed it so she
wouldn't get it do it anyway probably
won't be a to see apparently he he only
to take it out
okay what he said he grabbed it so she
wouldn't grab
it what
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is Officer back with West Palm Beach
Police Department today is April 26 2023
at 6:31 p.m. and I'm here with with Jona
Jana Jana Smith so can you kind of
explain what what happened so the issue
started with my daughter sorry can you
raise your R for me Sly SW that the
statement give by you the truth the
whole truth nothing but the truth so
help you God yes all right so started
with my daughter her and my younger son
were arguing
about popcorn I I don't know just little
kid stuff so she got upset and that's
why you see her out here throwing rocks
because I told her she wasn't coming
back inside of the house so she was out
here throwing rocks uh running around
here that's why just playing around
throwing rocks no being malicious
throwing throwing rocks trying to be
defant because she didn't want to listen
to what I was telling her to
do
why again okay all right
okay um do we have Grandma on the way
she's on the way but I don't want to
leave where am I going you're not going
anywhere at the
moment at the okay so can I be detained
right okay okay buddy this is why we
don't want to be right here but can you
close the door then
[Applause]
give him my phone then we'll get it
photograph and
collect photograph and collect
what okay buddy it's
okay so you're arresting
me you being detained not arrest but I'm
not say what that
means mean you're not under arrest
you're just being plac am I being
detained if you were questioning me he
was just questioning
me no it I'm being but I'm putting being
put in the back of your car
I'm off the West pal Beach Police
Department um are you familiar with
Miranda warnings I am all right so what
I'm going to do is I'm going to read you
off of this card verbatim just please
verbally State let your understand them
afterwards okay with a yes or a no you
have the right to remain silent and not
answer any questions do you understand
that I do you have the right to the
presence of a lawy of your choice before
you make any statement enduring
questioning do you understand that I do
if you cannot afford a lawyer you are
entitled to the presence of a court
appointed lawyer before you make any
statement uring question do you
understand that I any statement can and
may be used against you under ACC court
of law do you understand that I do any
statement you make must be freely and
voluntarily given do you understand that
I do if at any time during the interview
you do not wish to answer any questions
you are privileged to remain silent do
you understand that I do I can make no
threats or promises to induce you to
make a statement this must be of your
own free will do you understand that I
do all right so what's your first and
last name now J Smith Miss Smith okay
Miss Smith can you just tell me what
happened today my son doesn't want to
listen mhm that's basically what it
boils down to in the nutshell okay he
wants to be the man of a house when he's
not man and he doesn't like I said he
doesn't listen he's very disrespectful
he's telling me um what I can and cannot
do in regards to him being inside my
house M which then I proceeded to tell
him that he was free to go he was just
with his father this weekend I told him
to stay there him and his sister because
they don't listen they were both free to
stay there he's up was upset about that
mainly he he was more so upset because
my my son was bothering him upstairs in
the room and they feel as though I baby
him and let him get away with stuff so
while I was outside on the phone with my
mom and my daughter calming her down
after you seen her on the camera
throwing rocks and stuff like that she
was talking to my mom um I guess the
boys were upstairs and my son was
pulling on his hair or something and he
was upset and I came back in he was
calling them names saying that he was
blah blah blah so I told him to leave
him alone and stopped name calling him
he didn't like that because he felt like
I let him get away with everything okay
so
um he was like in my face which is why I
had the bat in my hand and he ran
through my living room tossed over a
table went through the side um on my
couches where this table was and the BB
gun is in the corner and he grabbed the
BB gun and ran out the door with it she
was still outside on the phone with with
my mother and I then locked the gate
behind him once he ran out with the be M
he then you can hear him on the thing
telling her to open the gate and that I
I fed up now because I hit him with the
bat which I did not what I did with the
bat was smash my phone which is mine
that he was using because he was telling
her to come and get the phone and I told
him he didn't have a phone and the phone
got smashed and then I threw the phone
to him outside he still had the B gun
and was cursing me out saying um I guess
he something his dad said to him about
me I don't recall everything he said but
that's when you hear him saying oh I Eed
up now I fed up now I hit him with the
bag and he was going to call the police
and I let him call the police I closed
my gate behind him she finished talking
to my mom picking up the rest of the
rocks that she had thrown out there and
we went back in the house I was getting
ready to take my son a baseball when my
bell rang and your you guys were okay so
at any point did you strike your son no
whether with your hands or bed or
anything like that no I struck the phone
you could see the phone was smashed up I
don't know if he still had it in his in
his
hand okay so
how so did you were you aware of any
injuries that your son has no
from what okay
so he's pretty banged up on his back and
on his arm can you explain those where
those might have come from on his arms
and on his back for what I have no idea
I don't have any idea either he we would
ran through the house and he knocked
over the table ran in the corner where
the BB gun was I don't know how he's got
anything on his arms or on his back it's
definitely not for me now what he did
outside of the gate I don't even know
where he went after he ran off with the
BB gun he came back a few times couldn't
get back in the gate and he left so I
didn't know where where he went which is
why I went on about my business getting
ready to take my child to baseball
practice so I wasn't expecting you guys
to show up at at my door yes ma'am so
you're saying at no point did you strike
him did he strike you he attempted to
which is why I grabbed the bat in the
first place okay so he came at me the
bat was right by the door I grabbed the
back when he came at me how did he how
did he come at you how like lunged at me
mhm and you were so he was inside of the
house you inside of the house he was
towards the I don't know how to explain
that I was standing like facing my back
towards the stairs he was picking up
shoes that he had thrown all over the
floor and I told him to pick up his
shoes and he could go this is what the
argument was about he didn't have to be
there he was free to go so and process
of him picking up the shoes yes I'm
still fussing at him and telling him you
know he didn't need to be there he's
picking on his 8-year-old brother
unnecessarily and he then was picking up
the shoes um still my daughter was still
on the phone with my mom she was coming
back inside the house and I don't know
what they were saying on it he was
yelling or something like oh granny see
she's always starting drama or something
like that and then I went to tell him
him like shove him out the door I did
just shove him out the door and he
pushed back when I tried to shove him
out the door and then like came at me
and I grabbed the back from the door he
ran around through the living room so I
thought you said you never touched him
well I didn't I didn't hit him I like
nudged him shoved him wasn't forceful
he's much bigger than me anyways wasn't
forceful I nudged him try to get him out
the door mhm but I didn't even really
push him hard like you know just pushed
him on his shoulder yes ma'am and um he
got upset about that and came towards me
which is why up having the bat in my
hand he ran around the sofa knocked the
table over in the corner so he could get
through the side grabbed the BB gun out
the out of the corner because it's over
in the corner behind this chair that's
in the corner pushed that up against the
window and ran out the door and then ran
off came back telling my daughter to
open the game
left again because I was standing there
still at the gate with the bat still but
I didn't touch him with the
backat is that all is that all that's it
that's you didn't let him back in the G
I didn't let him back in the house at
all I didn't let him back in the gate
and I told her not to let him back in
the gate and I told her to come in the
house and she went and got in the shower
and then that's when and then that's
when the rest of it happened cuz we were
getting ready to leave I was getting
ready to take him to baseball all right
all right no problem
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