WICHITA, Kan. — The quiet block of East Crowley Street in Wichita transformed into a scene of shock and sorrow early Friday morning. The woman behind one of St. Louis’s familiar morning anchors, 47‑year‑old Angelynn “Angie” Mock, is now in custody, accused of the unthinkable: fatally stabbing her 80‑year‑old mother, Anita Avers, inside their home.
Police say officers from the Wichita Police Department arrived around 7:52 a.m. after receiving a call about a domestic incident in the 1500 block of East Crowley. Upon arrival, they found Mock outside the residence, visibly distressed and covered in blood. Inside, Avers was found in her bed with multiple stab wounds; she was transported by EMS to a nearby hospital and pronounced dead at 8:26 a.m.
Mock herself told dispatchers that she stabbed her mother “to save herself,” according to booking and arrest records. She was taken initially to a hospital for evaluation and subsequently booked into the Sedgwick County Jail on a first‑degree murder charge. The full details of what led up to the confrontation remain under investigation.
Neighbors in the area, accustomed to a quiet, well‑kept neighborhood, say the scene was surreal. One resident told KAKE News that Mock emerged from the home covered in blood, visibly shaking, pleading for help and repeating “I need to call 911.” The atmosphere in the block shifted from normal morning calm to stunned disbelief.
Before this tragedy, Angie Mock had built a recognizable public profile: she served as a morning news anchor and reporter for KTVI (Fox 2) in St. Louis from 2011 to 2015. After stepping away from television, she moved into the corporate world with roles in data‑management consulting; why she left broadcasting hasn’t been publicly explained.
Her mother, Anita Avers, was widely known and respected in Wichita’s professional circles. A licensed clinical marriage and family therapist with more than two decades’ experience, Avers specialized in trauma, anxiety, and family‑conflict work. Colleagues describe her as deeply compassionate and dedicated; now her career and life have been overshadowed by this violent end.
The investigation into exactly how the confrontation unfolded is ongoing. Police have not yet released what triggered the fatal attack or what prompted Mock’s claim of self‑defense. For the Wichita community, and for those who followed Mock’s career, the events of November 1 have brought wrenching questions in place of the everyday routine: how could such a tragedy occur in a home, between mother and daughter, in a seemingly peaceful neighborhood?
As the judicial process begins, Mock is facing the most serious homicide charge in Kansas—first‑degree murder—while the memory of Avers’s decades of service and the grief of a community ripple outward.
