A California teenage boy who was found guilty of murdering his mother in 2017, has been recaptured after he managed to escape a halfway house last week, law enforcement officers announced on Sunday.
The 18-year-old convicted killer, Ike Souzer, managed to remove his electronic monitoring bracelet hours after being transferred to a Santa Ana halfway house from the Theo Lacy Facility in Orange County on Wednesday the County’s District Attorney’s Office said.
Souzer, who is deemed extremely dangerous, was rearrested at a homeless encampment in Anaheim on Sunday by undercover detectives, DA spokeswoman Kimberly Edds announced.
Souzer is presently being held in the Santa Ana city jail and is expected to be arraigned on April 19. However, it is not currently clear whether the arraignment will take place in juvenile court or regular court since he had been serving a sentence for a juvenile crime, Ebb said.
Souzer was just 13-year-old when he was convicted of killing his 48-year-old mom, Barbara Scheuer-Souzer. He fatally stabbed her mom with a knife and then dumped her body outside their home.
He was also convicted last December of attacking three correctional officers, officials said.
He had been transferred to the halfway house 15 months early before his sentence was set to expire on July 9, 2023, according to the DA’s office.
This is not Souzer’s first escape. In 2019, the teen climbed over the fence of the Orange County juvenile detention center in the middle of the night after he had somehow gotten on the facility’s roof before fleeing on foot.
He was recaptured the same day at a McDonalds in Anaheim, where he was peacefully taken into police custody
