Former FOX news anchor charged with murder after mother’s stabbing death

Angelyn Elizabeth Mock, a former TV news anchor in St. Louis, is charged with murder in the stabbing death of her 80-year-old mother after reportedly saying he did it “to save herself.”

Mock, 47, was arrested after the Wichita Police Department said she stabbed her mother Anita Avers to death in Wichita, Kan. on Oct. 31 around 7:50 a.m.

Police responded to a “reported cutting” where Mock was standing outside the home. Avers was found “unresponsive in her bed with multiple stab wounds.”

Sedgwick County EMS transported Avers to Ascension Via Christi St. Francis Hospital, where she was pronounced dead just before 8:30 a.m., Wichita police said.

911 dispatchers told emergency responders that “calling party [Mock] stabbed the mother to save herself,” indicating she may have been claiming self-defense, KAKE reported.

Alyssa Castro, a witness, said a woman covered in blood came up to her car and asked 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.

The woman went back inside with Castro’s boyfriend’s phone, which police returned later.

“The suspect was transported to the hospital for treatment before being taken into custody and booked into the Sedgwick County Jail,” police said in a news release.

Mock is charged with first-degree murder and is being held on $1 million bond.

She was a news anchor and reporter for several stations, including FOX 2 in St. Louis and KOKH FOX 25 in Oklahoma City, according to her her LinkedIn profile.

Police said the investigation is ongoing.