http://www.click2houston.com/news/hpd-mother-stabs-2monthold-to-death/36492394?
Police have charged Rochelle Brown, 28, with capital murder in the stabbing death of her 2-month-old son Levi Thornton-Smith.
Houston police arrived at her the apartment in the 10100 block of Windmill Lakes Blvd around 2 a.m.. Police say they found knives and the infant boy in the living room with multiple stab wounds.
Brown is the mother of two other children aged five and eight years old. The family recently moved to Houston from Nebraska.
Neighbors say they heard a commotion coming from the apartment early this morning. Neighbor Kris Atkins said, “Everybody was up. It was like dogs barking. It sounded like a war zone. You don't want to use the cliche, but it was loud noises like that."
Guillermo Trevino's lives next door to the family at The Longboat Key Apartments on Windmill and Stover.
“I heard a woman screaming saying 'Stop.' She was crying out to stop,” said Trevino.
Police said the mother's adult sister and the other two other children inside the apartment were sleeping when it happened, and they were not hurt.
Another neighbor told KPRC Channel 2 News the mother awakened her sister by beating her as she lay in bed. Brown's sister ran to a neighbor for help. The neighbor rushed over to find Brown stabbing the baby. He said Brown's hands were covered with blood, and she repeatedly said, “I need Jesus.”
Houston police arrived at her the apartment in the 10100 block of Windmill Lakes Blvd around 2 a.m.. Police say they found knives and the infant boy in the living room with multiple stab wounds.
Brown is the mother of two other children aged five and eight years old. The family recently moved to Houston from Nebraska.
Neighbors say they heard a commotion coming from the apartment early this morning. Neighbor Kris Atkins said, “Everybody was up. It was like dogs barking. It sounded like a war zone. You don't want to use the cliche, but it was loud noises like that."
Guillermo Trevino's lives next door to the family at The Longboat Key Apartments on Windmill and Stover.
“I heard a woman screaming saying 'Stop.' She was crying out to stop,” said Trevino.
Police said the mother's adult sister and the other two other children inside the apartment were sleeping when it happened, and they were not hurt.
Another neighbor told KPRC Channel 2 News the mother awakened her sister by beating her as she lay in bed. Brown's sister ran to a neighbor for help. The neighbor rushed over to find Brown stabbing the baby. He said Brown's hands were covered with blood, and she repeatedly said, “I need Jesus.”
http://abc13.com/news/mom-charged-in-stabbing-death-of-2-month-old-baby/1087896/
When a neighbor heard a woman's frantic scream for help, he responded. And he said he will never be able to 'un-see' an image now burned in his memory. And now the mother of an infant is charged with killing her own child.
"She killed the baby," he was told by a woman in a third floor apartment in the 10100 block of Windmill Lakes. When he walked inside, he saw a baby on the floor. The two-month-old boy, Levi Thornton-Smith, he said, appeared to have been stabbed several times.
The woman calling for help, he said, is the sister of the children's mother, Rochelle Brown, who had recently come here with her three children from Nebraska, following a separation. The family is believed to have arrived in the past couple of weeks.
"(The mother) kept saying, 'I need Jesus' and pacing. She didn't seem to know where she was," he told us.
He also said she had blood on her hands.
Brown's two other sons were asleep in a bedroom and were unharmed.
"I wanted to get her out of there," the neighbor said. "I told her to come out and get some fresh air. She sat there until the police arrived."
"She killed the baby," he was told by a woman in a third floor apartment in the 10100 block of Windmill Lakes. When he walked inside, he saw a baby on the floor. The two-month-old boy, Levi Thornton-Smith, he said, appeared to have been stabbed several times.
The woman calling for help, he said, is the sister of the children's mother, Rochelle Brown, who had recently come here with her three children from Nebraska, following a separation. The family is believed to have arrived in the past couple of weeks.
"(The mother) kept saying, 'I need Jesus' and pacing. She didn't seem to know where she was," he told us.
He also said she had blood on her hands.
Brown's two other sons were asleep in a bedroom and were unharmed.
"I wanted to get her out of there," the neighbor said. "I told her to come out and get some fresh air. She sat there until the police arrived."
