Former TV Anchor Charged with Killing Mother ‘Not Currently Competent’ to Stand Trial

A former news anchor and reporter in St. Louis, Mo., accused of killing her mother has been ruled mentally unfit to stand trial.

Angelynn “Angie” Mock was charged with first-degree murder in connection with the stabbing death of her mother Anita Avers, 80, at their Wichita, Kan. home on Oct. 31, 2025.

According to the Sedgwick County District Attorney’s Office, a competency evaluation of Mock provided to the court on Thursday, Jan. 15, 2026 “concluded that Ms. Mock was not currently competent.”  

“Based on the results of the evaluation, the Court ordered Ms. Mock to Larned State Hospital to receive further evaluation and treatment pursuant to Kansas Statute,” per the statement obtained by PEOPLE.

The criminal proceedings have been stayed “until such time as Ms. Mock regains competence,” according to the Sedgwick County District Attorney’s Office. “A finding that a defendant is not competent in Kansas does not lead to a dismissal of the criminal proceedings or lead to the release of the defendant.”

“When Ms. Mock is again deemed competent, the criminal proceedings will resume in the district court,” the statement reads.

According to a Nov. 4 probable cause affidavit filed by a Wichita Police Department detective and obtained by PEOPLE, officers responded to the home after Mock called 911 dispatchers.

She allegedly told a dispatcher that her “mother tried to kill her, so she stabbed her in return.”

Officers arrived at the home just before 8 a.m., and found Mock standing outside. She was bleeding and holding a towel.

Anita was found in her room, lying on her bed and suffering from multiple stab wounds to her head, face and torso.

“Next to Anita on the bed, [an officer] located multiple kitchen style knives and a cheese grater, laid out on a pillow,” according to the affidavit. “All the utensils had blood on them … the top sheet had at least 12 holes in the top half of the sheet, consistent with those caused by a knife.”  

When an officer asked what had happened, Mock allegedly said she went to her mother’s room “to talk and saw her sharpening knives,” per the affidavit, and then, she alleges her mother came after her with a knife.

“Angelynn was stronger so she pushed her back,” the affidavit states. “Her mother then said, ‘I know you’re f—ing Jesus Christ,’ so she backed away … Angelynn said her mother started spewing venom at me out of her f—ing mouth,’ so she had to stab her to save herself.”

Mock allegedly said later that she went to talk to her mother about a future job interview and discovered her mother “sharpening knives with bigger knives,” per the affidavit.

She allegedly told authorities her mother chased her around the family home.

“She said ‘I had to kill her, she wasn’t going to stop,'” the affidavit states. “Angelynn first said she stabbed first but later said her mother stabbed first.”

After the alleged attack, Mock was transported to a local hospital where she was treated for lacerations to her left and right hand and inner right arm.

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According to the affidavit, Anita’s husband Barry allegedly advised officers that Mock started living with the couple four or five years earlier after she was laid off because of “an explosive situation involving alcohol.”

Anita allegedly urged Mock to seek psychiatric assistance at the time, per Barry’s statement to police.

“Barry remembered Angelynn was originally diagnosed with bipolar disorder but was later revised to schizoaffective disorder,” the affidavit states. “To his knowledge, Angelynn was on medication, but he did not know what type and only assumed she took it as prescribed. She also had angry outbursts, but he never felt she was violent or felt threatened.”

Barry allegedly told officers he heard Mock making past statements such as, “They’re all robots” and “They’re not real people,” according to the affidavit.

After Mock was treated for her injuries at the hospital, she was taken to the police station where she allegedly “made multiple statements, talking to herself, where she believed her mother was the devil.”

“She said, ‘I’d kill that b—- to have my mom back any day. I don’t even know who she is anymore. I know, I believe she is the devil.”