A former morning present anchor in Missouri allegedly stabbed her aged mom to demise on Halloween, then instructed dispatchers she did it “to save lots of herself,” native retailers reported.
Neighbors within the quaint neighborhood in Wichita, Kansas stated that they have been traumatized after Angelynn Mock, 47, staggered out of a house shortly earlier than 8 a.m. Friday whereas soaked in blood.
“There was a girl who approached our automobile with like blood, like her fingers have been stuffed, her physique was crammed with blood, asking to name 911,” Alyssa Castro, who lives within the neighborhood, instructed KAKE.
Castro instructed the outlet that Mock took her telephone and bolted again inside the home, the place she known as authorities and allegedly claimed she “stabbed [her] mom to save lots of herself,” Sedgwick County dispatchers instructed the outlet.
When authorities with the Wichita Police Division arrived, Mock was ready exterior with a sequence of bloody cuts on her fingers.
Mock's mom, 80-year-old Anita Avers, was discovered “unresponsive in her mattress with a number of stab wounds.” She was rushed to a close-by hospital, the place she died simply half-hour later, in accordance with the police department.
Mock was swiftly taken into custody and booked into the Sedgwick County Jail for first-degree homicide, the place she is being held on a $1 million bond, in accordance with the county's sheriff office.
Police ultimately gave Castro's boyfriend his telephone again. Castro, although, was simply grateful they “have been in a position to assist.”
“Like, we by no means know what anybody goes by way of. This occurred randomly, however so long as we have been in a position to get 911 and see what we are able to do, that's all I actually care about,” she instructed KAKE.
Avers was a wedding and household therapist at Wichita Counseling Professionals, her husband confirmed to the outlet.
Mock labored at KTVI Fox 2 as a morning and night fill-in anchor from 2011 to 2015, in accordance with her LinkedIn.
She hopped round between totally different gross sales jobs within the Gateway Metropolis by way of August 2017 earlier than taking a two 12 months hiatus from the workforce and switching to a knowledge administration firm with a minimum of 5 workplaces within the Midwest, together with one in Wichita.
