19 Year-Old Who Killed His Mother Charged With Making a Shank in Jail

Ike Souzer, 20, of Garden Grove. Courtesy of Orange County Sheriff

SANTA ANA, Calif.—A 19-year-old Garden Grove man who stabbed his mother to death when he was 13 years old, pleaded not guilty Dec. 22 to making a shank while in jail, according to officials.

Ike Souzer was indicted on single felony counts each of possession of a deadly weapon by a prisoner and a prisoner manufacturing a deadly weapon. He was ordered to return to court Feb. 3 for a pretrial hearing in the Central Justice Center in Santa Ana.