nicole jacobs is live in brockton this morning with the very latest on this story. nicole. >>reporter: kate, investigators have not commented on a possible motive, but we do know they interviewed this 18-year-old son yesterday and made the determination to arrest him and charge him with his mother's murder. inside this brockton home at 34 meritt avenue, violence and murdered, allegedly at the hands of her son while the grandmother escaped. >> i knew it was something bad, only because she was wailing and screaming and she did say 911, 911. >>reporter: mary ann monteiro rushed to the grandmother's aid and went back inside the home. >> the grandson came lunging at us, and i pulled her out of there. >>reporter: firefighters arrived to find 18-year-old france polinnese sitting outside. >> they just went around him, deck, went into the house, came out and put him on top of the car and sat on him until the cops got here. >>reporter: investigators say 44-year-old mannina minhe'd was stabbed to death. wbz has learn thad a knife was recovered at the scene. the district attorney's off