In Leonardtown, Maryland, a 17-year-old boy admitted in court Friday to trying to hire a hit man to kill his parents after he reportedly became angry at them for confiscating his PlayStation.
According to police, Cory Ryder, 17, told the mother of one of his friends that he wanted his parents dead. The woman contacted authorities and detectives decided to set up a sting.
Ryder was told to meet with a police officer posing as a hit man at a hotel. That’s where he offered the undercover officer his stepfather’s new pickup truck as payment for killing his parents. “Two bullets is all it takes,” he allegedly said.
Ryder told Juvenile Services that he was angry that his parents grounded him for weeks, confiscated his PlayStation, banned him from watching television, and kicked him out of the house.
His defense attorney argues that Ryder was under pressure to meet the officer at the hotel and that he never intended to go through with the killing.
According to The Washington Post, Ryder has history of bad behavior. He reportedly smashed a fire extinguisher case and broke into the local county fairgrounds, where he vandalized property.
After Ryder was sentenced to probation, he dropped out of school and even stole $45 from his sister’s piggy bank.
Even though Ryder’s mother wanted her son tried in an adult court, a judge has ruled that he will be tried in the juvenile system, meaning he cannot be held beyond the age of 21.
