Son pleads insanity after stabbing Syracuse educator over 30 times: ‘She was everything to me’

Syracuse, NY -- “I’m trying to figure out whether God wants me to kill you or not.”

A couple of years before stabbing his mother to death in 2019, Darrien Howard had pulled a knife on a co-worker at a Camillus gym, according to a psychiatric report. Those words, quoted in the report, offered a chilling peek into his ongoing battle with schizophrenia.

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