“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, a neighbor, told KAKE.

Mock took Castro’s phone and returned inside her home, where she contacted the police. She reportedly told officers that she “stabbed [her] mother to save herself.” When authorities arrived, they found Mock covered in blood with multiple cuts on her hands.

Inside the residence, they discovered her 80-year-old mother, Anita Avers, unresponsive in bed with several stab wounds. Despite being transported to the hospital, Avers died shortly after from her injuries.

Mock has been charged with first-degree murder and is being held on a $1 million bond. Her neighbor commented on the incident’s unexpected nature, saying, “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,” according to KAKE.

Details surrounding the incident are still under investigation. Before her death, Anita Avers worked as a marriage and family therapist at Wichita Counseling Professionals. Angelynn Mock previously served as a news anchor, notably as a morning and evening fill-in anchor for KTVI Fox 2 in Missouri from 2011 to 2015. After leaving broadcasting, she held various sales positions before joining a data management company.