Inset: Angelynn Mock (Sedgwick County Jail). Background: Cops in Wichita, Kansas, investigate after Mock allegedly murdered her mother (KAKE).
A 47-year-old former news anchor allegedly stabbed her 80-year-old mother to death in a Kansas home and called cops to say she killed the victim in self-defense.
Angelynn Mock faces a first-degree murder charge in the death of Anita Avers in Wichita, police said in a press release. Cops responded shortly before 8 a.m. Friday to a home in the 1500 block of East Crowley. Mock was standing outside the home when officers arrived. When they went inside, they found Avers unresponsive in her bed with "multiple stab wounds." She was taken to the hospital where doctors pronounced her dead.
Police arrested Mock and took her to the hospital. She's now at the Sedgwick County Jail on a $1 million bond.
Local ABC affiliate KAKE obtained audio from 911 dispatchers that said Mock claimed self-defense.
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"Calling party stabbed the mother to save herself," dispatchers reportedly said.
KAKE spoke with a neighbor who said Mock came running up to her and her boyfriend when they were in their car.
"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 told the TV station.
Mock begged Castro's boyfriend for his phone to call 911. When he gave it to her, she ran back into the home, Castro said.
"I asked her if she was OK, and she was pretty shaken up and she seemed scared, and she just ran off," stated Castro.
Per local CBS affiliate KMOV, Mock was a former morning anchor for Fox 2 news in St. Louis from 2011 to 2015.
Avers was a licensed clinical marriage and family therapist with some 20 years of experience, according to Wichita Counseling Professionals.
"She specializes in treating adults experiencing depression, anxiety spectrum disorders, trauma, and mood disorders, as well as relationship issues, including couples and marriages, family conflict, infidelity and divorce," her biography said.
