Isabella Guzman, Aurora 18-Year-Old, Allegedly Stabbed Mother 79 Times

 

An 18-year-old in Colorado is facing first-degree murder charges after allegedly stabbing her mother in the face and neck 79 times.
The teen's stepfather, Ryan Hoy, called Aurora Police to the home on the night of Aug. 28 when he saw blood pooling under the door of the upstairs bathroom. According to the arrest affidavit, Hoy told dispatch that police had already been called to the house earlier that day because his stepdaughter, Isabella Guzman, had allegedly threatened her mother Yun-Mi Hoy in an email telling her, "You will pay."
Guzman's biological father, Robert Guzman, also claimed he had a talk with Isabella before the 911 call.
"I went to talk to Isabella and we sat down in the backyard looking at the trees and the animals and I started to talk to her about the respect that people should have for their parents," Robert Guzman told 7News. "And I was trying to let her know that she should be obedient to her parents, not rebellious, that she should try to listen more and everything was going fine. In the conversation, I thought that I made progress. But obviously it didn't do nothing, because hours later, this thing happened."
While on the phone with dispatch, Hoy said that at first he was unable to open the door because Guzman wouldn't let him enter and he heard Yun-Mi Hoy say "Jehovah" before the bathroom door opened.
"Hoy then observed Isabella Guzman standing in the doorway holding a knife," the affidavit reads. "Hoy advised that he never heard Guzman say anything and that she didn't speak to him as she exited the bathroom... [she] was just staring straight ahead when she walked past him."
Hoy told dispatch that Guzman left wearing a pink sports bra and turquoise shorts, taking the knife with her. While performing chest compressions on his wife, Hoy said he believed his wife was already dead because she was staring blankly ahead.
When officers arrived on the scene, they found Yun-Mi Hoy lying naked on the bathroom floor covered in blood next to a baseball bat. An autopsy found that she had suffered 31 stabs to the face and 48 stab wounds to the neck.
Guzman was found by police the next day in a nearby parking garage and was arrested. She was due to be formally charged in Arapahoe County court on Thursday morning, but the judge was forced to push back the court date until later in the afternoon because Guzman refused to come out of her cell.
At the beginning of her hearing, 9News reports that Guzman was smiling and made faces at the courtroom camera. She is being held without bond and is facing charges of first-degree murder and two counts of a crime of violence.
Guzman, who turned 18 in June, will be charged as an adult and is eligible for the death penalty.

Jaylen Bledsoe, High School Sophomore, Builds $3.5 Million IT Company In Little Over 2 Year

Few entrepreneurs can say they've grown their business into multi-million dollar enterprises in just a couple years. Far fewer can say they've done so all before even graduating high school.
Jaylen Bledsoe, 15, of Hazelwood, Mo., however, is just that rare breed of high school sophomore. He started his own tech company that specializes in web design and other IT services, Bledsoe Technologies, when he was just 13 years old and worked to expand it into a global enterprise now worth around $3.5 million, Fox 2 in St. Louis reports. The local news station followed up with Bledsoe on Monday after first interviewing the teen back in March 2012. Since that first interview, Bledsoe has grown his company from two workers to about 150 contracted employees in order to meet demand.
Meanwhile, Bledsoe has pursued other, more traditional goals for a high school kid. He's held leadership roles in a variety of student organizations, such as president of the Student Council and the Parent Teacher Student Association. Outside of school, he's served as the chief technology officer of St. Louis Volunteen, a program to promote teen volunteerism, according to Patch. He was even partly responsible for bringing vegetarian options to his former middle school's cafeteria.
“I don’t see many eighth graders do the things that he does but it’s all his doing,” Curtis Bledsoe, Jaylen's father, told Patch in 2012. “I’m very proud of him.”
Jaylen said an interest in web design, which he first discovered while attending classes at his school's gifted-education program, was the foundation for his business. But he says it's taken a lot of hard work and courage, too.
His most important advice for young entrepreneurs? "Take risks," Bledsoe, who plans to attend Harvard University before becoming a copyright lawyer, told Fox 2. "As a minor, there's nothing you can do that will shoot you down for too long. You can always jump back up and keep going."