The incident occurred after the 46-year-old man, identified only as “Fabrizio R.,” offered advice to his son Mario about how to improve his performance in the EA Sports soccer game FIFA 2009, which he’d been given as a birthday gift a few days earlier. The boy didn’t react well to the criticism, however, leading his father to turn off the television. In response, the teenager went straight to DEFCON 1, grabbed a 15-inch knife from the kitchen and stabbed his dad in the neck with it.

He then took the knife back into the kitchen, where he washed it in front of his mother, “Monica B.,” and left it to dry. Cleaning up huge, blood-soaked knives must be a more common occurrence in Italian households than it is here in Canada, because his mother claimed she had no idea that anything was amiss until Fabrizio “stumbled into the room, clutching his throat.”

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MONTE VISTA, Colo.(CBS/AP) Chores are never a teenager’s favorite way to spend a fall afternoon, but for 14-year-old John Caudle chores were the motive for murder, Colorado police say.

In an arrest affidavit, Caudle told investigators that on Oct. 26, 2009 he argued with his mother because he didn’t want to do household chores like taking out the trash or cleaning his room. Then he said he went to a gun safe, removed two .22 caliber pistols and shot his mother dead.

Caudle said he then hid in a laundry room and shot his stepfather when he walked past a short time later.

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Twelve-year-old Jordan Brown’s future rests in a courtroom. The question is which one.

Prosecutors say the fifth-grader used a 20-gauge shotgun to kill his father’s pregnant fiancee as she slept in February in their farmhouse in New Beaver.

If he is tried and found delinquent in juvenile court, the state could not incarcerate him beyond his 21st birthday.

If he is tried and convicted of first-degree murder in adult court, experts say he would become the youngest person in the United States to serve a mandatory life sentence in prison without parole.

A Lawrence County judge this week will hear arguments about how to try Jordan, who was 11 when he was charged with two counts of homicide, including the killing of an unborn child.

The hearing Friday before President Judge Dominick Motto is the next step in a case that has scarred two families and captured the attention of juvenile justice experts nationwide. They say Jordan’s saga highlights legal and emotional dilemmas that arise when a child is caught between juvenile and adult court.