Mom Who Killed Son Found Guilty, Insane

A mother from Gresham who shot and killed her son was found guilty except for insanity on Friday. Dianne Davidoff was ordered to the Oregon State Hospital for treatment.

Davidoff was found guilty except for insanity to one count of murder with a firearm and one count of unlawful use of a weapon.

It was around 7:30 p.m.on September 24, 2015, at their home on Southeast Rosefinch Drive. Davidoff fired one shot into the chest of her 17-year-old son, Jacob, killing him.

The Davidoffs were in the process of moving out of their home. She had lost her job, had been forced to sell the house.

Her lawyers would introduce evidence of her mental state - how she had accused her ex-husband of killing her mother even though she was still alive and had referred to her daughter and angel that wouldn't be able to save her.

At one hearing, they played video of her interrogation where she sat in the lap of her 65-year-old mother, wrapped in a blanket, rocking back and forth, crying.

Davidoff will be under the jurisdiction of the state's Psychiatric Review Board. There is the possibility that she could one day be released.

Photo Multnomah County Sheriffs Office.