Authorities in Harris County, Texas, charged two 16-year-old boys with the murder of 18-year-old Michael Spivey, who let them into his home on December 26, 2025, after they claimed they needed to charge their phones. Spivey was shot in the back of the head, and the suspects later posted online songs mocking him, according to his mother. One suspect was arrested on a recent Saturday and the other on Monday.
On December 26, 2025, the day after Christmas, Michael Spivey, an 18-year-old high school student, was at his home on the 17300 block of Edsall Drive in Spring, Texas. Harris County Sheriff Ed Gonzalez stated that Spivey left to meet someone outside and returned accompanied by one or two persons. His mother, Vanessa Garcia, told Houston's ABC affiliate KTRK that Spivey considered the visitors friends and allowed them inside because they said they needed help charging their phones. 'They took advantage of my son's kindness,' Garcia said. Investigators found no signs of forced entry or struggle, and Spivey had been shot in the back of the head inside his room. After the shooting, the two 16-year-old suspects reportedly went online and created 'songs' making fun of Spivey, treating him 'as if he were a joke,' according to Garcia. Months later, ahead of the March 19, 2026, announcement, the Harris County Sheriff's Office arrested one suspect on Saturday and the other on Monday. Both were booked into Harris County's juvenile detention center and charged with murder. Garcia has called for them to be prosecuted as adults. 'A juvenile is a child who doesn't know what they're doing yet,' she said. 'They knew what they were doing. They went there with the intent to do it.' Authorities have not released the suspects' names.