Two sisters have been charged with killing their mother in southwest Mississippi.
32-year-old Ericka Hall was found lying drenched in blood at the
family’s mobile home in Magnolia just before midnight on Friday. She had
been stabbed multiple times and shot once in the chest with
a small-caliber handgun inside the home before staggering outside. She
was also stabbed in the back, with the knife still sticking out of her
back when she was found by relatives.
Robin Coney, the victim’s aunt, told WLBT.
The girls, when I drove up, they were like: “Tee Tee we didn’t do
this.” And I was like: “OK, if y’all didn’t do it, where were y’all when
the people that was doing it did it?”They found out the daughters — two teenagers, juveniles — allegedly did it.
The 14-year-old daughter, Amariyona Hall (pictured in the mugshot
above), has been charged with murder as an adult and is being held at
Pike County Jail on $150,000 bond.
The 12-year-old, who is not been named because she is a minor, is
being held at Adams County Juvenile Detention Center in Natchez. Both
girls will receive mental evaluations.
Under Mississippi law, children 13 and older accused of certain
crimes are automatically charged as adults. Judges can later transfer
cases to youth court.
The victim’s aunt said the victim got in an argument with the two
girls on Friday night. Deputies heard that the girls had also tried to
run her over with the family car earlier in the week, the Enterprise
Journal reported.
Neighbors said Hall was killed days after she took away her
daughters’ cellphones. Because their mother punished them, they
retaliated with Friday’s fatal attack. She said the gun used in the
murder belonged to Hall, and that she kept it stored in her car.
After the murder, the girls allegedly walked across the street to ask
the neighbors for a ride to neighboring McComb because their
grandmother had just died. Coney said the girls then walked further down
the road to a relative’s home.