Former TV anchor charged with first-degree murder in Wichita

A former television news anchor was arrested Friday after police say she fatally stabbed her 80-year-old mother inside their Wichita, Kansas, home. Officers responding at about 7:50 a.m. to a report of a cutting on Crowley Street found Angelynn Mock, 47, outside the residence with cuts on her hands and her mother, Anita Avers, unresponsive in bed with multiple stab wounds, police said. Avers was taken to a hospital and pronounced dead.

Wichita police said Mock was treated at a hospital and later booked into the Sedgwick County Jail on a charge of first-degree murder. Jail records show she is being held on $1 million bond. Authorities said the investigation is ongoing and have not released a motive.

Neighborhood residents described a chaotic scene. A neighbor, Alyssa Castro, said a woman covered in blood approached her vehicle asking that 911 be called, then took the phone and ran back into the house before returning it to Castro’s partner. Police later recovered the phone, Castro said. Sedgwick County dispatch recordings indicate a caller told dispatchers she had stabbed her mother to save herself, though police have not confirmed who made that call.