14 year old and her 12 year old stab and shoot their mother to death

Police arrested a 14-year-old and her 12-year-old sister for stabbing and shooting their mother to death — a brutal payback after they were punished for trying to run her over with the family car, neighbors and officials in Mississippi said.

                            KEY HIGHLIGHTs

• Police arrested a 14-year-old and her 12-year-old sister for stabbing and shooting their mother to death. 

• 32-year-old mother of four, was found stabbed multiple times and shot once in the chest with a handgun, authorities said.

• Neighbors reports that Hall was killed days after taking away her daughters’ cellphones.

•  They’re charged with murder and the law will be apply. Both girls are scheduled for mental evaluation.

The teen, Amariyona Hall, and her younger sister were taken into custody late Friday after deputies in Pike County responded to the family’s mobile home in Magnolia, where Erica Hall, a 32-year-old mother of four, was found stabbed multiple times and shot once in the chest with a handgun, authorities said.

Investigators zeroed in on Hall’s daughters, Pike County Sheriff Kenny Cotton told the McComb Enterprise Journal. They found out the daughters — two teenagers, juveniles — allegedly did it,” Cotton said, adding that both girls are scheduled for mental evaluations. “They’re charged with murder and we’re going to apply the law.”



Neighbors reports that Hall was killed days after taking away her daughters’ cellphones. It wasn’t clear if the mom took the phones away before or after her daughters allegedly tried to mow her down.

Cotton, meanwhile, said he couldn’t make sense of the alleged retribution killing. “I can’t imagine what’s going on inside their minds to process that,” he told the newspaper. “A mom is a mom no matter what.”