After her 11-year-old son called 911 and said she “believed he was the devil” and was “burning the family dogs,” cops said a Texas woman was taken into custody.
Around 1 p.m. on May 17, Rusk County sheriff’s officers arrived at the Henderson residence, which is located approximately 140 miles southeast of Dallas, the agency said in a Facebook post.
According to the sheriff’s office, 911 dispatchers received a second call from a neighboring location while en route to the site, this time about a woman who had just arrived at their home with blood on her hands and informed them that her parents had been killed.
According to the sheriff’s office, the 32-year-old mother was arrested during deputies’ investigation at the residence. The mother had been driving her automobile with her four children, ages 1 to 11, inside.
A probable cause affidavit, deputies first met the woman’s parents at their residence. The woman pulled up to the scene with her kids in a car, rolled down her passenger side window, and yelled, “Help, help, help me someone is trying to kill me,” according to the court filing, as deputies were chatting with the parents.
According to the affidavit, a deputy attempted to calm the woman down while her parents removed the kids from the car. The deputy claimed that the woman started “sweating profusely,” had “abnormally fast breathing,” and showed symptoms of “paranoia” during their conversation.
According to the affidavit, the mother also acknowledged to deputies that she had killed the family’s two dogs in front of her kids.
According to the Facebook post, deputies discovered dog remains in a fire that was blazing in front of the woman’s house as the sheriff’s office was conducting an investigation.
The sheriff’s office said that the woman was detained and charged with two felony counts of animal cruelty and four counts of endangering children based on this and the initial findings of the deputies.
After that, she was arrested on a $400,000 bond.
