Boy, 15, ‘strangled his architect mother to death after they argued about him getting a D at school’

A 15-year-old Florida boy has been charged with murdering his mother, burying her body under a church fire pit, and then trying to stage his home to look like there was a break-in.

Gregory Logan Ramos, 15, confessed to strangling his architect mom Gail C., 46, at their home in DeBary after they argued about him getting a ‘D’ grade at school, police say.

The boy then teamed up with his close friends from University High School, Dylan Ceglarek, and Brian Porras, both 17, to make it look as though his mother was killed during a break-in.

The son buried the body in a fire pit at River City Church (pictured) 1.5 miles away Friday morning

The son buried the body in a fire pit at River City Church (pictured) 1.5 miles away Friday morning

Ramos and his mother exchanged words about his D grade at around 11 pm Thursday night then he woke her up at around 12.30 am in the early hours of Friday morning and cut off her air supply.

‘He went into her room and woke her up and began strangling her and strangled her till he killed her,’ Volusia Sheriff Mike Chitwood said, adding that the motive was ‘rage’.

In between the argument the mother had called father Danny C. – who was away on a business trip in Seattle – to tell him about the grade.

He found out about her death when he returned home Friday night.

During his confession, he said he used a wheelbarrow to move her body into the family van, and then he drove to River City Church 1.5 miles away where he buried her in a fire pit.

At first, he drove to Daytona’s Holly Hill area to dump her corpses but headed back to find a shovel before he went to his alternative plan.

Meanwhile, his friends kicked the door in, took items from the house, and left the van’s engine running in an effort to make it appear as though there had been a break-in.

‘Then got home and made in his words a “Grammy-winning phone’ call to 911 to talk about this horrible incident that did not really occur,’ Chitwood said at a news conference.

Chitwood said Ramos told them what really happened after he initially tried to say his mother dropped him off at school Friday morning.

However, the details did not add up after Gail’s architect firm said she didn’t show up to work that morning.

Law enforcement was suspicious of the boy – who returned home from school early on the day of the crime and made the call at 3.52 pm – almost immediately.

He reported his mother missing and noted the van left running in the driveway.

Nevertheless, law enforcement put out a notice for anyone who knew of her whereabouts.

Ramos reported his mother missing after school and said her van was left running outside their DeBary, Florida home

Ramos reported his mother missing after school and said her van was left running outside their DeBary, Florida home

Dylan Ceglarek and Brian Porras, both 17, and Ramos went to University High School (pictured)

Dylan Ceglarek and Brian Porras, both 17, and Ramos went to University High School (pictured)

They later found items including a PlayStation 4, computer, shovel, rifle, and a broom used to tidy the area where the mother was buried, to corroborate the story.

‘Just the whole scenario, the whole thing, the crime scene, when you start interviewing the kid – things were just not adding up. Things were amiss from the very beginning,’ Chitwood said.

Saturday authorities exhumed the mother’s body from the fire pit.

He added that this was ‘one of the most disturbing and saddest I’ve seen in my career’. ‘I have a feeling this is a case we’ll be hearing about for years to come. All our hearts break for this family,’ he added on Twitter.

Ramos was being held at the Department of Juvenile Justice in Daytona.

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