This quite a horrific story. A former tv anchor has been arrested for first degree mother after allegedly stabbing her own mother on Halloween. Angelynn Mock, 47, allegedly stabbed her own mother while she was in bed and then called police claiming she did it to “save herself.” The New York Post had more details to ad on the stabbing: A former morning show anchor in Missouri allegedly stabbed her elderly mother to death on Halloween, then told dispatchers she did it “to save herself,” local outlets reported. Neighbors in the quaint neighborhood in Wichita, Kansas said that they were traumatized after Angelynn Mock, 47, staggered out of a home shortly before 8 a.m. Friday while soaked in blood. “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, who lives in the neighborhood, told KAKE. Castro told the outlet that Mock took her phone and bolted back inside the house, where she called authorities and allegedly claimed she “stabbed [her] mother to save herself,” Sedgwick County dispatchers told the outlet. When authorities with the Wichita Police Department arrived, Mock was waiting outside with a series of bloody cuts on her hands. Mock’s mother, 80-year-old Anita Avers, was found “unresponsive in her bed with multiple stab wounds.” She was rushed to a nearby hospital, where she died just 30 minutes later, according to the police department. Mock was swiftly taken into custody and booked into the Sedgwick County Jail for first-degree murder, where she is being held on a $1 million bond, according to the county’s sheriff office. Ex-TV anchor stabs elderly mother to death on Halloween ‘to save herself’: cops https://t.co/phQsxMpdd6 pic.twitter.com/ASdmxICXXQ — New York Post (@nypost) November 2, 2025 People reported more on mock’s previous work history as an anchor: Mock previously worked as a news anchor and reporter for Fox 2 in St. Louis from 2011 to 2015, per her LinkedIn profile. She later transitioned into sales, and was currently working for a data management software company at the time of her arrest, per LinkedIn. Mock’s motive for the alleged crime is not clear at this time. Information about her initial court appearance is currently unavailable.