Grandma snuffed out with sock at family barbecue, daughter held arms down while boyfriend suffocated her after argument about grandchild: Police

A Nebraska pistillate teamed up with her boyfriend and helped him termination her ain mother — pinning the mom's wrists to the crushed portion the fellow suffocated her with a sock — pursuing an statement implicit a grandchild, constabulary say.

Samantha Neiber, 25, and Mason Clarke, 30, were hosting a barbecue connected Saturday astatine their location successful Elkhorn, Nebraska, erstwhile Samantha Neiber's mother, Jennifer Neiber, began warring with Clarke astir Samantha Neiber's child, according to a Douglas County Sheriff's Office property merchandise and connection provided to Law&Crime.

"The verbal statement turned carnal and culminated with Clarke placing a sock into Jennifer's rima portion Samantha held Jennifer's wrists to the ground," the merchandise says. "Jennifer was pronounced deceased astatine the country by Omaha Fire Department aesculapian personnel."

The sheriff's bureau alleges that Jennifer Neiber, 57, was upset astir thing regarding Samantha Neiber's 3-year-old, who is not Clarke's child.

"After Samantha's kid was enactment to bed, Jennifer became progressive successful an statement with Clarke regarding Samantha's child," the DCSO merchandise says.

Deputies responded to the location wherever the household was astatine astir 10 p.m. aft receiving a telephone astir a "suspicious death." They arrived astatine the country and located 2 individuals, Clarke and Samantha Neiber, "sitting connected a bed," with Jennifer Neiber dormant connected the level successful beforehand of them.

Clarke was interviewed by constabulary and past arrested on suspicion of kid maltreatment by neglect without wounded and second-degree murder. Samantha Neiber was arrested and charged with accessory to a Class I felony and kid maltreatment by neglect without injury.

The kid successful question was transported and temporarily placed with a section home maltreatment and kid advocacy halfway known arsenic Project Harmony. It's unclear what happened to spark the alleged statement betwixt Clarke and Jennifer Neiber. He and Samantha Neiber are being held astatine the Douglas County Correctional Center successful Omaha.