Dad: Teen wanted death after attack on mom

SAN DIEGO, Dec. 17 (UPI) -- The father of a California teenager charged with killing her mother said that immediately after the attack the girl asked him to kill her.

James D'Aoust of Scripps Ranch testified at a preliminary hearing Monday for Heather D'Aoust, 15, the San Diego Union-Tribune reported. Heather D'Aoust was arrested last year at the age of 14 and charged as an adult with murder in the death of Rebecca D'Aoust, 56.

D'Aoust said his daughter, adopted when she was a baby, has two personalities, which he called "Heather 1" or "normal Heather" and "Heather 2." He described the first as calm and aware of herself and the second as angry.

"I saw Heather 2," he said when Paul Pfingst, Heather's lawyer, asked him which was in evidence the day his wife was killed.

His daughter said she had killed her mother and then said, "'I want you to kill me,'" he said.

D'Aoust said his wife got up to make coffee on May 25, 2007, and he went back to sleep. He was wakened by screaming.

Heather D'Aoust faces 30 years to life in prison if she is convicted of murder.