Vriseno Charged in Waco Target Stabbing

The charge is aggravated assault causing serious bodily injury, built on store video, a knife in a pocket, and what police say he admitted after he was read his rights. It is not a conviction. His mother survived surgery, and the state still has to prove the count.

Galveston Elijah Vriseno, 21, is charged with aggravated assault of a family member causing serious bodily injury in the stabbing of his 43-year-old mother inside the Target on Bosque Boulevard in Waco. Officers were called around 2:22 p.m. on Sunday, Nov. 8. She was taken to a hospital, underwent surgery, and was reported in stable condition. He is in the McLennan County Jail on a $100,000 bond.

Police say store video shows the two of them in the optical area, then shows him stabbing her and running out of the store. He called police himself. Around 4 p.m. they found him at a Jack in the Box on Bosque Boulevard, in the clothes witnesses had described, including a blanket. He was throwing the blanket and other items in the trash and washing blood off his hands. After an officer read him his rights, he admitted that a knife in his front left cargo pocket was the one he had used.

His sister called while officers were still looking for him. She said that two days earlier he had said the Illuminati told him to kill his mother and her.

All defendants are presumed innocent until proven guilty in a court of law.