RACINE — A 15-year-old is being charged as an adult in the stabbing death of his mother earlier this week in Racine County.
Reed Gelinskey is being held in the Racine County Jail on $1,000,000 bond. WTMJ does not normally name juveniles charged with a crime; however we are naming the suspect since he is being tried in adult court.
Gelinskey appeared in court Thursday, where probable cause was determined in the death of his mother Suzanne. He faces one count of felony 1st degree intentional homicide.
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According to the criminal complaint, on Tuesday, March 4, 2025, at about 10:34 pm, police were dispatched to a single family home on East White Manor Court in Franksville. A friend of Gelinskey says she received a Snapchat photo from the teen showing a woman laying on the ground, and that he told the friend to call police.
As responding officers were arriving on scene, they were met by the 15-year-old who was exiting the front door of the residence. The complaint says he made statements for officers to kill him, stating “she is dead…she is dead from what I did.” The teen was taken into custody without incident.
Officers cleared the residence and located an adult female dead inside the home. A preliminary investigation indicates the victim was stabbed and also sustained blunt force trauma. The victim was identified as the mother of the teen who surrendered to the responding officers.
In court Thursday, Gelinskey said he came home from school March 4th and felt an urge to kill his parents. He said he had been taking his brother’s anxiety medication for about a month, taking nine pills that evening because “it makes him high and he enjoys it”.
Gelinskey said the plan to kill his parents came to him while watching a scene of the Menendez Brothers documentary on Netflix. He also noted the plan included killing his father with a hammer, but that he could not find one large enough.
Gelinskey’s father has contacted his law office to request an attorney for his son. A second court appearance is scheduled for Friday afternoon.
