A 14-year-old boy hid a gun in his closet and shot his mother on his bedroom floor after she called him ret***ed, prosecutors said. 

Havoc Leone allegedly pulled out a gun and a notebook from his closet during an argument with his mother, Theresa McIntosh, keeping the weapon hidden from her while they argued in his room on March 7 about a stolen tablet. 

He tossed her the notebook, and when she leaned to reach for it, she yelled that the teen was ‘ret***ed,’ prosecutors said. 

Before pulling the trigger, he allegedly replied: ‘Yes, mom,’ Assistant District Attorney Kelly Strickland said, according to Cowboy State Daily. 

That day, Leone and his parents had previously had an argument about a tablet the teen had allegedly stole from one of his mother’s cleaning business clients. 

After the first argument, Leone went to do homework in the kitchen, McIntosh went upstairs to her son’s room to work on a puzzle, and her husband went to the basement to play video games, according to the affidavit obtained by the news outlet. 

At some point, Leone went up to his room, where a second argument ensued with his mother over math grades and the stolen tablet before fatally shooting her. 

Prosecutors said McIntosh asked her son for the password to the tablet he had taken. Leone told investigators the password was written in a notebook stored in his closet. 

Havoc Leone, 14, allegedly shot his mom, Theresa McIntosh, inside their Wyoming home in March after she called him ret***ed

Leone and his parents allegedly got in an argument earlier in the night over a tablet he stole from one of his mother’s clients. Leone and his mother then got into another argument about it later in the evening

That’s when he retrieved the notebook and tossed it to her, before allegedly pulling the trigger. 

His father found Leone standing outside his bedroom, looking panicked afterward.

When he asked what had happened, the teen allegedly replied: ‘I don’t know, it just went off,’ according to Cowboy State Daily. 

The father immediately called 911.

McIntosh was still alive when police arrived at their Wyoming residence. She was life-flighted to a hospital, where she was later pronounced dead. 

Leone was arrested on a $500,000 bond and was charged as an adult. Despite bypassing juvenile charges, the 14-year-old will not be eligible for the death penalty due to his age, Cowboy State Daily reported. 

Leone’s defense argued in court on Monday that this wasn’t the first time McIntosh had called her son names, alleging she had done so throughout his childhood.  

Jonathan Foreman, one of Leone’s attorneys, asked Laramie County Sheriff’s Office Detective Miles DePrimo, who testified, if he were to call the deputy a r****d, would he believe him. 

Mcintosh demanded to get the password to the tablet, which he said he kept in a notebook. He tossed the notebook to her after retrieving it from the closet 

While she was looking at the notebook, Leone allegedly raised the gun and shot her 

‘No,’ DePrimo answered. 

‘Would a child who had been hearing that his whole childhood start to question that?’ he asked. 

‘Maybe,’ the deputy responded. 

Leone’s attorneys argued he was raised by a mentally ill mother and he was emotionally vulnerable. The defense claimed McIntosh regularly pulled his hair and slapped him, Cowboy State Daily reported. 

In interviews with detectives, the boy told investigators a very different version of events. According to the affidavit, he initially suggested there had been a struggle over the weapon and that the gun might have gone off accidentally.

‘Havoc had been home at the time of the shooting, and after an initial interview stated there was a struggle over a firearm, and he may have accidentally pulled the trigger on the firearm, but was not sure,’ DePrimo wrote.

But as the investigation continued, prosecutors say Leone described a far more deliberate sequence of events.

Investigators learned the weapon used in the shooting was a black Taurus 9mm handgun that belonged to McIntosh and was normally kept in her vehicle.

McIntosh had reportedly called him a re***d moments before he shot her. Moments before pulling the trigger, he allegedly said: ‘Yes, mom’ 

According to the affidavit, Leone admitted he had secretly taken the gun from the glove compartment roughly a week earlier and hid it inside a boot in his bedroom closet.

He also later admitted to having ‘thoughts about killing McIntosh in the past, specifically when she would make him do things he didn’t want to do,’ DePrimo wrote in the affidavit. 

Leone’s other attorney, Emily Williams, requested the judge lower his bond to $50,000 and promised the boy’s father would take him if the family was able to pay the bail. 

That request was denied, as the judge argued the allegations were quite serious. 

‘As of right now, the community is safer [with Leone in jail],’ Strickland said. 

At his arraignment on Monday, Leone kept mostly quiet, except to reply ‘alright’ to the judge when asked a series of questions. He also put in a ‘not guilty’ plea. 

Leone’s trial is set to begin on August 10. He faces life in prison.