April Lyda explained in an exclusive “CUOMO” interview Thursday what she says caused her daughter to act out in violence.
“From what we found, it looks like it was a medication issue, not anything else,” Lyda said. “It’s like a manic episode of some kind.”
The stabbing happened in January, when the Tulsa Police Department says the 12-year-old girl woke Lyda up and told her she had just stabbed her brother. The boy was taken to a hospital, where he died.
The girl was taken to the Family Center for Juvenile Justice, police said in the January news release.
Lyda said her daughter had recently stopped taking ADHD medication for the second time prior to the killing.
The 12-year-old was on medication for five years, but stopped when she began to be home-schooled. When she returned to public school the following year and her grades began to slip, she went back on medication at the recommendation of school and health professionals, Lyda said.
She then stopped taking the medication when she began to cut herself, Lyda said. She did not specify what medication her daughter was taking.
“She loved him and he loved her. She has no idea why she did it. She’s heartbroken and she feels very guilty, but she still doesn’t understand why she did it,” Lyda said.
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