Mom won’t help son buy weed, so he attacks parents, PA cops say. ‘Take you both out’

When a mother refused to give her son money to purchase marijuana, she and her husband were brutally attacked by the 20-year-old, Pennsylvania police say.

The son, Evan Houseman, now faces a dozen assault-related charges following the Jan. 5 incident at a home in Newberry Township, court records show.

Officers were called to the home by Houseman’s father, who said his son was assaulting his mother, police said. They were forced to apply a taser to Houseman upon entry when the officers saw him approach his mom.

An investigation revealed Houseman got into an argument with his mother the previous day, according to the affidavit of probable cause. He asked her to give him money to buy marijuana, but she refused.

The following morning, he grabbed his mom’s head “and pushed it towards the floor and then put her in what she described was a head lock,” police said. He is accused of threatening to “apply pressure” if she did not give him his medication, at which point he released her and retrieved the undisclosed-medication.

Authorities said Houseman’s father later became involved when the son threw a TV and Xbox down stairs. While the dad assessed the damage, he was pushed from the bottom two steps onto the ground.

The attack continued outside, as the son put his father into a head lock with his body weight on top of his dad, according to the affidavit. The alleged assaults left the dad with head, neck and back injuries, according to the court documents, which state he had trouble breathing while in the head lock.

Houseman threatened to kill his parents, according to his father, who said the 20-year-old said he would “take you both out,” referring to his mom and dad, court documents show.

Police said the father retrieved a gun and called 911. Before officers arrived, a dispatcher heard Houseman shout “shoot me” over the phone.

Houseman is also accused of kicking both of the responding officers in “sensitive areas on (their) bodies that could have caused serious injuries.”

Court records show Houseman faces charges of aggravated assault, strangulation and terroristic threatening, among others. He is due in court Feb. 5 for a preliminary hearing.

Newberry Township is about a 110-mile drive northwest from Philadelphia.

This story was originally published January 13, 2025 at 9:16 AM with the headline "Mom won’t help son buy weed, so he attacks parents, PA cops say. ‘Take you both out’."