'Going into rooms that aren't hers': Mother kills daughter during argument over stolen booze, police say

A Texas pistillate is down bars aft shooting and killing her girl during an statement astir who drank whose alcoholic beverage, instrumentality enforcement successful the Lone Star State says.

Shanika Battle, 49, stands accused of 1 number of murder, according to Dallas County tribunal records reviewed by Law&Crime.

The underlying incidental occurred connected Monday astatine a residence connected Green Cove Lane successful southwest Dallas and took the beingness of 28-year-old Tabatha Jones, according to the Dallas Police Department.

A fewer minutes earlier 4 p.m. that day, officers arrived successful effect to reports of a shooting. An initial constabulary report described the unfortunate and alleged assailant arsenic "known to 1 another."

The unfortunate herself is said to person called 911 and told dispatch that her ain parent changeable her successful the side, according to an apprehension affidavit obtained by Dallas-based Fox affiliate KDFW and ABC affiliate WFAA.

Authorities arrived wrong minutes owed to already being connected a telephone astir a artifact distant from the country of the crime, constabulary said. Responding officers recovered Jones connected her furniture successful her country suffering from a gunshot wound, according to the affidavit.

The younger pistillate was taken to a adjacent infirmary wherever she yet succumbed to her injuries, according to instrumentality enforcement.

Both women were successful the residence — and were the lone radical determination — erstwhile constabulary arrived, the affidavit says. After obtaining a hunt warrant, investigators recovered a pistol successful the surviving country adjacent the older woman's purse on with a .380-caliber fired cartridge casing successful the hallway extracurricular the victim's bedroom, constabulary said.

In a consequent interview, Battle allegedly told investigators her girl was upset due to the fact that she had taken her daughter's alcohol.

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The parent went connected to accidental Jones past began "going into rooms that aren't hers," the affidavit says. This purported behaviour led to an statement betwixt parent and daughter, constabulary said.

There is immoderate quality implicit whether the statement ever became physical. However, the suspect allegedly did admit to owning the weapon recovered astatine the residence, constabulary said. Battle besides allegedly said she removed the weapon from her purse successful an effort to "scare" her girl — but was adamant she did not sprout her, according to the affidavit.

The suspect is being detained successful the Dallas County Jail with nary bond.