Authorities are searching Friday for a teenage boy who allegedly stabbed his mother to death in 2017 and escaped from juvenile hall in Orange overnight.
Ike Souzer, 15, escaped from the facility in the 300 block of The City Drive South shortly after midnight, according to the Orange County Sheriff’s Department, which was assisting personnel from the Orange County Probation Department in the search.
Souzer is white, 6 feet tall, 200 pounds, and was wearing a white shirt and red pants. He may have a laceration to his left leg. He has been in custody since 2017 on suspicion of murder, according to the sheriff’s department.
The teen allegedly fatally stabbed his mother at a residence in the 11000 block of Gilbert Street in Garden Grove in 2017, according to Garden Grove police.
Barbara Scheuer-Souzer died at a hospital, police said. Officers found the boy at a shopping center a half mile away from the crime scene shortly after the wounded woman was discovered, police said.
The 434-bed institution for boys and girls — typically between the ages of 12 and 18 — houses juveniles being detained pending juvenile court hearings, according to the Los Angeles Times.
Anyone seeing him was urged to call the sheriff’s dispatch office at (714) 647-7000.