Here's Why Former News Anchor Allegedly Claimed She Stabbed Her Mother to Death By Liam Quinn 52

The former news anchor who is accused of fatally stabbing her elderly mother allegedly told police she did so “to save herself,” a statement that may suggest she was claiming self-defense.

Angelynn “Angie” Mock was arrested after the Sedgwick County Police Department said she stabbed her mother Anita Avers, 80, to death in Wichita, Kan.

The department said in a release that it had responded to a “reported cutting” on Friday, Oct. 31 and found Mock standing outside the home. Avers was found “unresponsive in her bed with multiple stab wounds.”

According to county records, Mock, is charged with first-degree murder and is being held on $1 million bond.

KAKE reported that 911 dispatchers told emergency responders that “calling party stabbed the mother to save herself,” suggesting that Mock allegedly called 911 to report that she’d stabbed Avers in self-defense.

Alyssa Castro told the outlet that she was in the car with her boyfriend when a woman covered in blood ran up and begged to use a phone to call 911.

“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,” Castro told KAKE. 

According to Castro, the woman took the boyfriends phone and ran back into the home with it before police later returned it.

Mock was a news anchor and reporter for Fox 2 in St. Louis from 2011 to 2015, according to her her LinkedIn profile.

It is not immediately clear if she has entered a plea or retained an attorney.