The youth was quoted as saying in a signed statement:
"I woke up and looked at the clock. I have an illuminated desk clock.
It was around 6 o'clock, I think, I remember getting out of bed. Then I walked to the drawer of my desk, took out the gun, I didn't do anything to it except pick it up.
T didn't examine it in any way and then the next thing I remember was a shot and a woman's scream. it must have been my scream. I was kneeling beside the bed of my father and mother and you know how his forehead looked.
While blaming incidents of that night to "queer spell Welsford says he has no idea how long he has been subject to them. "I can't tell because it only happens that I know certain pieces of what I have done and I don't know whether I have done other things that I have been entirely unconscious of or not," police quoted him,
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