NORWICH – A Norwich teen has been charged as an adult for attempting to murder his mother. Fourteen-year-old Ty A. Tumminia, Norwich, has been charged with second-degree attempted murder. The teen has admitted to attacking, Theresa I. Tumminia, 32, with a phone cord, and strangling her because she refused to allow him to visit his girlfriend in Iowa.
Police received a 9-1-1 call Sunday from the assailant’s eight-year-old brother. Police responded to the home at 80 South Broad St. and discovered the mother unconscious. “While attending to the female’s injuries, the 14-year-old male left the residence, taking a car parked in the driveway,” Norwich Police Chief Joseph Angelino said in a press release this week.
A Norwich Fire Department Ambulance took the mother to the emergency room at Chenango Memorial Hospital Sunday night. She has since been released and is expected to fully recover.
Tumminia is a ninth grade student at Norwich High School.
In a statement given to investigators, he said: “I stayed up and talked to Christina on the phone. I told her I had a plan to kill my mother. The only plan that I had was to choke her, and then I did not know what I was going to do after that.” ... “After my mom went to bed, I thought I could choke her with the phone cord and kill her. I just wanted to be with Christina.”
His statement then continued, as follows:
“At about 10:30 p.m., I went to my mother’s bedroom. Her door was open, but the outside light was on. I could see her sleeping on the bed ... I jumped on her and tried to choke her with the phone cord ... She was fighting me the entire time and I was able to get the cord around her neck. We were on the bed. Most of the time, we were rolling around and she was trying to scratch me. She scratched me pretty bad in the face. She was able to grab the phone cord and break it in half while I was choking her with it.”
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