A former television anchor was charged with first-degree murder for allegedly stabbing her 80-year-old mother to death on Halloween “to save herself,” officials announced last week.
Angelynn Mock, a former news anchor for a local Fox affiliate station, is accused of repeatedly knifing her mother, Anita Avers, in their Kansas home early in the morning on Oct. 31.
The Sedgwick County District Attorney’s Office announced that Mock, 47, was charged with first-degree murder, which could put her behind bars for the rest of her life.
Mock, who was an anchor with St. Louis’s KTVI Fox 2 in the early 2010s, was arrested at the home she shared with her mother in Wichita, Kansas around 7:50 a.m. after she called police on herself.
Her hands were littered with bloody cuts when officers found her waiting for them outside the home.
Mock claimed she “stabbed [her] mother to save herself,” Sedgwick dispatchers said.
Officers with the Wichita Police Department arrested her without incident and found Avers “unresponsive in her bed with multiple stab wounds,” according to a press release from the department.
Avers was rushed to a nearby hospital, where she succumbed to her injuries just 30 minutes later.
Mock’s injuries were also treated at the hospital before she was booked into the Sedgwick County Jail on a steep $1 million bond.
Neighbors said that they were stunned when they saw Mock stagger out of her home, caked in blood on Halloween morning — and almost scared speechless when she approached a couple watching on in horror.
“There was a woman who approached our vehicle with like blood, like her hands were filled, her body was filled with blood, asking to call 911,” Alyssa Castro, who lives in the neighborhood, told KAKE.
Castro and her boyfriend, desperately trying to find a way to help, gave Mock their phone. She bolted back inside, where she presumably used their cell to call the police.
“Like, we never know what anyone is going through. This happened randomly, but as long as we were able to get 911 and see what we can do, that’s all I really care about,” Castro told the outlet.
Avers was a celebrated family and marriage therapist at Wichita Counseling Professionals. She had 18 years of experience under her belt and specialized in helping adults diagnosed with mental health disorders like depression, anxiety spectrum disorders and mood disorders, according to the practice’s website.
Mock’s preliminary hearing is set for Nov. 14.
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