Former TV anchor charged with first-degree murder in stabbing death of 80-year-old mother: DA

A erstwhile greeting TV quality anchor has been charged with first-degree execution successful the alleged stabbing of her 80-year-old mother, officials announced.

Angelynn "Angie" Mock, 47, who antecedently anchored for FOX 2 News successful St. Louis, has been charged with first-degree execution successful the stabbing of her mother, Anita Avers, connected Halloween, the Sedgwick County District Attorney’s Office announced.

Mock was arrested connected Oct. 31 successful Wichita, Kansas, aft constabulary accidental Avers was killed wrong the location they shared.

Mock antecedently worked arsenic a greeting quality anchor astatine FOX 2 successful St. Louis from 2011 to 2015 and besides held positions astatine KOKH FOX 25 successful Oklahoma City.  (Angie Mock/Facebook)

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When officers responded to the location astir 7:50 a.m., they recovered Mock extracurricular with cuts connected her hands, according to the Wichita Police Department.

Avers was recovered with "multiple stab wounds," the territory attorney's bureau said.

Mock was treated astatine a infirmary for injuries earlier being booked into the Sedgwick County Jail. A spokesperson for the Sedgwick County District Attorney’s Office told Fox News Digital that Mock's preliminary proceeding day is Nov. 14 astatine 1:30 p.m. 

Anita Avers successful a 2021 photo. Avers was allegedly recovered stabbed successful her location successful Wichita, Kansas, connected Oct. 31, 2025. (Anita Avers/Facebook)

Mock antecedently worked arsenic a greeting quality anchor astatine FOX 2 successful St. Louis from 2011 to 2015 and besides held positions astatine KOKH FOX 25 successful Oklahoma City. At the clip of her arrest, she was employed successful income astatine a information absorption bundle company, according to her LinkedIn profile.

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Angelynn "Angie" Mock was treated for injuries astatine the infirmary earlier being arrested and booked into the Sedgwick County Jail connected suspicion of first-degree murder. Mock is being held connected a $1 cardinal bond, Sedgewick County nationalist records show.  (Sedgwick County Jail )

Neighbors successful the assemblage were traumatized aft a bloodied Mock allegedly emerged from the home, section outlets reported.

"There was a pistillate who approached our conveyance with humor each implicit her hands and body, asking america to telephone 911," Alyssa Castro, who lives successful the neighborhood, told KAKE.

Castro told the outlet that Mock took her boyfriend's telephone and ran backmost wrong the house, wherever she called authorities and allegedly claimed she "stabbed [her] parent to prevention herself," according to Sedgwick County dispatchers.

Former St. Louis tv quality anchor Angelynn "Angie" Mock has been charged with first-degree execution pursuing the fatal stabbing of her parent successful Wichita, Kansas. (Angie Mock/Facebook)

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Mock's motive for the alleged stabbing remains unclear. Information connected her archetypal tribunal quality was not instantly available.