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The night before the attack, Yvonne and Zachary Ervin got a call from one of their sons. He said he and his brother wanted to make the family dinner at their Snellville-area home.
What followed that night, police believe, were Xanax-spiked cocktails. What came the next morning was a brutal assault that left Yvonne Ervin badly beaten, Zachary Ervin stabbed multiple times, and both brothers in the Gwinnett County jail.
One of the brothers accused of attacking his parents even told police he?d been planning the crime since he was 11.
More details about this bizarre case below…
The night before the attack, Yvonne and Zachary Ervin got a call from one of their sons. He said he and his brother wanted to make the family dinner at their Snellville-area home.
?The mother said this was odd behavior,? according to a Gwinnett County police search warrant obtained Monday, ?because the sons had not done this on prior occasions.?
According to the warrant, the brothers? mother, Yvonne Ervin, told police she thought it was odd that her sons offered to make dinner the evening before and she believed she?d been drugged.
According to the AJC, a warrant indicates police seized several items from the house, including a shotgun, lighter fluid, knives and cell phones.
The warrant doesn?t say which son admitted to planning the attack since the age of 11, but it does say both sons admitted to attempting to trying to strangle their parents and to stabbing their father.
The Ervin brothers waived their Friday probable cause hearing in Gwinnett magistrate court. Charged with two counts apiece of aggravated assault and first-degree arson, they are being held at the Gwinnett County jail without bond.
A possible motive in the attack remains unclear but in the 911 call the mother mentioned her sons may have been after their insurance money. Gwinnett County District Attorney Danny Porter told The Atlanta Journal-Constitution last week that the brothers had hinted at a ?bad home life,? but no evidence of that had surfaced.
Family friend Derrick Butts told The AJC that the Ervins had ?no issues.?
?If you call a troubled home life having everything you ever wanted, then I?ll take that trouble any day,? Butts said.
Yvonne Ervin was released from the hospital a few days after the attack. Zachary Ervin was released Thursday.? The sons remain in jail without bond.