California man, 20, who stabbed his mom to death and escaped halfway house is CAPTURED in Mexico - five years after he made headlines for fleeing juvie as a teen

A Southern California man who was convicted of murdering his mother when he was 13 was nabbed by authorities in Mexico only a week after he had fled his halfway house, violating the terms of his probation.

Ike Nicholas Souzer, 20, was arrested Wednesday in the coastal city of Rosarito by U.S. Customs and Border Protection and Mexican officials.

This marks the third escape attempt by Souzer, who disappeared from a halfway house in 2022 after removing his electronic monitor. He was picked up only a short time after. 

And five years earlier, there was a concerted manhunt for Souzer after he fled the juvenile detention he had been placed in after being convicted of killing his mother.

This latest hunt for Souzer only lasted a week. Before he was captured, the Orange County District Attorney’s Office warned the public that the fugitive was dangerous and violent.

Ike Souzer, 20, was arrested in Mexico on Wednesday only a week after escaping from his California halfway house

When Souzer stabbed his mother, Barbra Scheuer-Souzer, to death, she was 47 years old and engaged to be married

During his time behind bars, Souzer has been charged with three attacks on correctional officers, possession of a shank in jail and drawing graffiti on a freeway underpass.

Souzer, who suffers from a mild form of autism, knifed his 47-year-old mother to death in 2017, when he was just 13 years old. 

Barbra Scheuer-Souzer, the killer's mother, had three other children and was engaged to be married at the time of her murder. Before she succumbed to her injuries, the wounded mother was able to inform authorities that her youngest son was her assailant. 

Souzer was picked up by authorities soon after at a nearby shopping center. 

Only a few weeks prior to murdering his mother, the teenager had run away from home. He was eventually located in Pomona and returned home. This appeared to be the first indication of a pattern of behavior that would repeat itself over the years.

Souzer has been in custody since he was 13 years old (pictured left), when he was arrested for knifing to death his mother, 47-year-old Barbra Scheuer-Souzer (right)

Souzer was convicted of voluntary manslaughter in the death of his mother. His defense attorney argued that the killing was in self-defense and that the boy had suffered years of abuse.

He was placed in Orange County juvenile hall, which he escaped from in 2019, somehow exiting his locked cell and then scrambling over a perimeter fence after midnight.

It was the first escape from the juvenile hall in more than two decades, and a legion of 60 officials were charged with tracking him down. He was eventually recaptured.

In 2022, Souzer was transferred from jail to a halfway house in Santa Ana, where he made another dash for it, removing his electronic monitor, and running away. He was later caught by police.

Souzer has made a total of three escape attempts from the different halfway houses and juvenile detention centers he's been immured in

When Souzer was arrested in Mexico on Wednesday, a week after abandoning his halfway house, it marked only his latest escape effort.

Orange County DA Todd Spitzer was frustrated with this arrangement. He said that Souzer deserved harsher sentences, and that the issue lay with the lenient judges who have handled the perennial fugitive's cases.

'My prosecutors have spent years and years trying to do everything they can to keep this violent criminal behind bars,' DA Spitzer said of Souzer.

'At every turn, the very judges who are elected to protect public safety have done little to do so and instead have given him break after break after break.'