BAKERSFIELD, CA - New details were released Tuesday about the 17-year-old accused of killing his stepfather. Court documents said it all started with a conversation about Kody Ryan's bad behavior.
The police report says Ryan had got an F, missed curfew and wasn't doing his chores. In the report, his mother tells police it wasn't a bad argument, but when her son went to the bathroom it turned deadly.
Court documents paint the picture of an average night June 25th. Kody Ryan, his mother and his stepfather, Derick Mitchell, were "sitting in the living room having a normal conversation" according to the police report.
In the police report, Ryan's mother said "Ryan had received an 'F' grade on his most recent report card from school and he had recently come home 20 minutes past curfew." She said "she had just taken his cell phone away, they were talking about grounding him from driving his truck for a few days."
Ryan's mother tells police: "there really wasn't any bad argument or yelling or screaming." The document says at one point his mother "went to the kitchen" and "her son went to go to the bathroom and her husband followed him."
That's when the report says Ryan's mother heard a "loud bang" from their master bedroom. His mother told police when she got to the back room Ryan was standing near the foot of the bed and stated, "I'm sorry." The report says his stepfather, Derick Mitchell, had a single gunshot wound to the chest.
When police arrived officers said that Ryan said while sobbing, "It was just an argument. I was only trying to scare him. So I grabbed the gun in the dresser. I didn't know it was loaded. Why was it loaded?"
According to police, that gun was a "Glock 9mm pistol", Mitchell's gun. Ryan's mother told police Mitchell keeps it in the nightstand for home defense.
Ryan is in Juvenile Hall. His next court date in August 13th. His attorney, H.A. Sala, did not want to comment because it is early in the investigation.
Deputy District Attorney Andrea Kohler also declined to comment.
Deputy District Attorney Andrea Kohler also declined to comment.