16-year-old boys posted songs 'making fun of' teen they shot dead after he let them in his home because 'they said they needed help,' cops and mom say

A Texas precocious schoolhouse pupil fto 2 teenagers helium believed were his friends into his location lone for them to shoot him successful the backmost of the caput and rob him, according to authorities and the victim's mother.

Two 16-year-old boys person been charged with murder for their alleged engagement successful the decease of 18-year-old Michael Spivey, Harris County Sheriff Ed Gonzalez announced. Both defendants were booked into Harris County's juvenile detention center.

On Dec. 26, 2025 — the time aft Christmas — Spivey was astatine his location connected the 17300 artifact of Edsall Drive successful Spring, Texas, Gonzalez said. At immoderate point, helium near "to conscionable idiosyncratic extracurricular his home" and past returned "soon aft accompanied by 1 oregon 2 different persons."

While authorities person not released the names of the 2 16-year-old defendants, Spivey's mother, Vanessa Garcia, said her lad considered them some friends.

"They said they needed assistance that nighttime to travel complaint their phones, and helium fto them in," Garcia told Houston's ABC affiliate KTRK. "They took vantage of my son's kindness."

Spivey was changeable successful the backmost of the caput wrong his room, his parent added. There were reportedly nary signs of forced introduction oregon conflict successful the home, and investigators worked to uncover what they judge happened.

Following the shooting, the 2 suspects reportedly went online and made "songs" astir Spivey, "making amusive of him" arsenic if helium were "a joke," Garcia said.

Months later, connected Saturday, the Harris County Sheriff's Office arrested and charged 1 of the suspects, and connected Monday, they arrested and charged the other. Garcia wants them to beryllium prosecuted arsenic adults.

"A juvenile is simply a kid who doesn't cognize what they're doing yet," she told the section TV station. "They knew what they were doing. They went determination with the intent to bash it."