Man who was killed after mom found him hiding under teen daughters bed was mentally disabled, teacher says

The man allegedly shot to death by an enraged Tennessee mother who found him hiding under her 13-year-old daughter’s bed was mentally disabled, his old teacher shockingly claimed Tuesday – while the alleged murderer mom remained behind bars on first-degree murder charges. Kendra Scott was slapped with $100,000 bail while facing a judge for the first time Monday, after she was arrested for allegedly shooting 20-year-old Rodderius Morton in the back of his head outside her Memphis home on Thursday, according to cops. The 36-year-old mother told officers she came home at around 1:30 a.m.and “saw a dude under my kids’ bed.”“And I did what I had to do,” she said, according to an arrest affidavit.Her defense lawyer has called the situation “the worst nightmare of any parent of a 13-year-old girl” – but one of Morton’s old teachers claimed he likely didn’t know what he was doing was wrong.“I’m very, very hurt, because the young man I knew — that most people, based off this story — they don’t him personally like I did,” Robin Perkins, who said she was Morton’s middle school “special needs teacher,” told local news outlet WREG. Perkins, who didn’t elaborate on what kind of disabilities Morton had, described her former student as “soft-spoken and respectful” – and called his death “unbelievable,” according to the outlet. The educator said she believed Morton may have thought the girl was older, or he didn’t understand the law.

Either way, his mind didn’t work like a typical 20-year-old’s, she insisted. “I do not condone his actions and going and mingling with a 13-year-old,” Perkins said.“However, when you’re cognitively not 20, what do you expect?”“I just wish she never would’ve shot him.

There were so many opportunities for her to stop and think,” the teacher continued, referring to Scott. “There’s so many different ways that this could’ve had a different outcome.Call the police [or],...