Annie Elise
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And I think it's worth noting that these were not bad kids.
The fact that they loved to be outside and actually play, it says a lot about them, and it says a lot about their childhood, and quite honestly, it says a lot about their parents in a great way.
It's refreshing.
But that being said, I also don't know any kid who isn't going to get maybe a little sassy or maybe a little bit of talking back if somebody catches an attitude with them purposefully, if somebody's trying to intentionally hurt their feelings.
I mean, it's just not realistic.
Kids don't know how to regulate their emotions as well as adults do.
So just to step away when things are getting bad isn't something that a lot of kids understand, which is exactly the way Susan intentionally would set it up every time.
She knew that she was the antagonizer.
She knew that she was going to get something out of them and, like, poke the bear until they, you know, I guess, like, what is it, growl back, fight back, whatever it is.
And she did that until finally it exploded.
On the night of the 2nd, AJ's two older children were out playing outside like they have done so many nights before, and usually the field was full of kids.
But on that night in particular, it was a little less busy than usual, as far as number of kids went.
AJ's oldest son, Isaac, who was 12 at the time, was shooting basketball on the street.
Her second oldest son, 10-year-old Izzy, was playing in the field by himself.
Now, Izzy was in the field and had his iPad with him, but he had momentarily laid it down and then moved on to something else, which, tell me a 10-year-old who doesn't get distracted.
But this is the moment when Susan came outside, picked the iPad up from off the ground, and was raging pissed.
Izzy says that he asked Susan to give it back to him, but instead of handing it over, she threw it on the ground and she started yelling at him.
He also had a pair of roller skates that were in that field with him, and that is when, according to Izzy, this is what he told the investigators, Susan picked up the skates and threw them at him, hitting him in the toe.
Now, at some point during this dispute between this grown woman, who was almost 60 years old, and two literal children, because remember, Isaac was also close by during all of this, only 12 years old, Susan apparently even started swinging an umbrella at the kids.
So after this whole altercation, a 911 call came in.