Christine Murray, Chesapeake, Virginia 63-year-old grandmother stabbed to death by her 15 year old grandson.

 

Murray, a 63-year-old grandmother from Chesapeake, was described as a kind person who was 'gone too soon.'

A Virginia teen boy has been detained for allegedly murdering his 63-year-old grandmother on Tuesday, Chesapeake police said on Wednesday.

At 4:27 p.m., police responded to the 700 block of South Lake Circle and discovered Christine Murray, 63, deceased on the scene. Police arrested Murray's 15-year-old grandson and accused him with first-degree murder in the stabbing death of his grandma.

The Chesapeake Police Department stated in a release that there was no threat to the public.

The killing of a 63-year-old Chesapeake grandmother has left the town stunned.

A neighbor detailed the impact the homicide had on the community.

‘This morning at the bus stop, it’s all the kids were talking about and the effect it is going to have on them that one of their classmates, one of their peers was at the point that this had to happen,’ the neighbor said according to WAVY.

Speaking to 13Newsnow, a neighbor told the outlet that she knew Murray very well and that she took care of her grandson after school before the boy’s father picking the boy up around 4.30 p.m.

The neighbor said she was ‘horrified’ to see the teen boy removed from the house in handcuffs around the usual pick up time.

Flowers sit outside the home where the incident occurred. Neighbors who struggled to understand what led up to the grandmother’s slaying said Murray was a loving person, ‘gone too soon.’