The TX woman who killed her grandmother for “witchcraft” found guilty

Behind the attention The brutality of the police And the justice moves in 2020, a very sinister crime took place that claimed the life of a 70 -year -old woman. The woman’s niece was accused of killing her and now, The judge pronounced a verdict who determined her fate.

Let’s run. In February 2020, the police said they had reached a “chaotic scene” when they responded to a house in the 8500 block of the spot in San Antonio. Police said Octavian Jones was preparing home for work when his sister, Tamera Laws, entered and entered and he asked for excuses for something he had doneon San Antonio Express-News. Jones then entered their grandmother’s room and found it, Dorris Ruth Novella, dead on the floor.

Police reports say Novella’s face was bleeding and almost unrecognizable. Following the autopsy from the medical examiner, the police have set laws suffocated, stabbed and repeatedly hit the novel with a hammer resulting in her death, on the KSAT report.

After being accused of killing Novella, the laws insisted that it is under mental deception during killing. She confessed during the process that she became dependent on methamphetamine while working as an escort that led to her hearing voices, on news4a.

“I would hear voices in my head, telling me that people were trying to kill me. I was like: “I know my grandmother is trying to kill me.” I was afraid that my grandmother will make a witchcraft, “she said on the stand.

In addition, she claimed during the process that a phone call with her father a few moments before the killing caused her to commit the act, because he told him that he would “get to chop and send him to a box until Monday.” Then she confessed that during the incident, she felt the “energy” on her and thought she had to “defeat” her grandmother.

Some medical experts have confessed, saying that the laws had evidence of a degrading mental state on reports. However, prosecutors said it was never reported to have symptoms in prison.

There have been several suspicious findings that contradict the madness argument of the laws. Experts confessed during her process to find a strong pine smell coming from the room where the novel was found, on San Antonio Express-News. They also confessed that he found DNA of the laws on a cleaner bottle found in the room. Prosecutors claimed that the laws were well aware of what he did, using the testimonies of the experts to suggest that he tried to hide the place of the crime, from the reports.

The laws gave up its right to a jury process, leaving their fate to a judge. Friday, February 28, the judge of Bexar county and found guilty of murder, on Kat. Her sentence will be scheduled at a later date.

Laws are facing life in prison.