Former TV Anchor Angelynn Mock Charged With Killing Her 80-Year-Old Mother in Kansas

Overview

• Police in Wichita say they were called around 7:50 a.m. on Oct. 31 and found Angelynn Mock outside a home with hand injuries.
• Inside, officers discovered Anita Avers, 80, unconscious with multiple stab wounds; she was taken to a hospital and died shortly after.
• Mock, 47, was booked into the Sedgwick County Jail on a first-degree murder charge with bail set at $1 million.
• Authorities have not identified a motive, and the investigation remains open as officials sort out conflicting accounts of the incident’s timing.
• A witness told local TV that Mock asked them to call 911, and reporting cites dispatch logs indicating she said she stabbed her mother to save herself.