'What the f—? Stop. Stop. Stop': Mom claims her child was 'growling' at her before she allegedly slaughtered him and shot his 3 siblings in car, report says

A Texas parent accused of gunning down her 4 children during a car ride, sidesplitting 2 of them, has allegedly started talking astir the slayings portion down bars — insisting she is "not a monster" and that it's really 1 of her dormant kids who is to blame, saying: "My oldest has a past of psychotic episodes threatening people."

Speaking successful jailhouse interviews past week, Oninda Romelus told section NBC affiliate KPRC that the oldest kid she is accused of killing, 13-year-old O'Karreo Covington, pulled a firearm connected her portion she was driving with the lad and his 3 siblings, Amourra Chappel, 3, who died, and Kylee Romelus, 9, and Traviel Downer, 8, who were some changeable but survived.

"I retrieve my oldest aiming the weapon astatine me," Romelus allegedly claimed. "I curse to God my lad was growling astatine maine … (I told him) 'What the f—? Stop. Stop. Stop.'"

Authorities accidental it was Romelus who carried retired the killings and acted bizarrely, noting however she was "paranoid astir her surroundings" during constabulary interviews. The parent told investigators she "couldn't speech about" wherefore she took her children's lives and past proceeded to bring them to a section state presumption aft she called 911 and reported what happened, according to tribunal documents.

"Instead of them doing it to me, I'm gonna bash it to them," Romelus said, according to a criminal complaint.

"Do what?" a lawman asked.

"Kill them all," Romelus allegedly replied.

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Romelus allegedly told KPRC, "I'm not crazy," during her jailhouse interviews, and that her 13-year-old "has a agelong way record" of threatening people. She said she gathered up her children and started driving astir with them that time due to the fact that she believed an ex was stalking her.

Asked astir her statements to cops, Romelus allegedly said, "I curse my manus earlier God, I don't retrieve immoderate of that."

Police accidental Romelus gunned down her children wrong her car and past showed up to a state presumption successful Brazoria County with them each suffering from gunshot wounds. Another child, a 17-year-old boy, was not with them and could not instantly beryllium located aft the shootings, according to section Fox and NBC affiliates KRIV and KPRC, respectively. It's unclear if constabulary ever recovered him.

Romelus is charged with 2 counts of murder and 2 counts of aggravated battle with a deadly weapon. Cops judge she changeable her kids sometime earlier 4:45 a.m., according to tribunal documents obtained by Law&Crime. She allegedly claimed during constabulary interviews that they're with "the devil" now.

Before showing up to the state station, the Montgomery County parent called 911 and asked authorities to conscionable her astatine a state presumption successful Angleton. Her children were successful the conveyance erstwhile authorities arrived.

According to the complaint, Romelus was successful a achromatic rider car with the motor moving and "all of the doors opened" erstwhile cops arrived. One of her kids was positioned with their "body hanging halfway retired of the beforehand rider door, with legs successful the conveyance and the precocious torso and caput connected the ground," the ailment says.

Surveillance footage allegedly shows Romelus pulling into the state presumption and pumping gas, with constabulary saying she purchased $56 worthy of fuel.

"Romelus was talking connected her telephone arsenic she tin beryllium seen getting fuel," the ailment alleges. "She is observed walking astir to the driver's broadside of the vehicle, wherever she peers into the rear model earlier sitting backmost successful the driver's spot of the vehicle."

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After her arrest, the Brazoria County Sheriff's Office executed a hunt warrant astatine Romelus' location and allegedly recovered grounds related to imaginable fraud that Romelus whitethorn person been committing. The grounds haul included 33 societal information cards, 48 recognition cards, 16 recognition cards, 2 treasury checks successful envelopes, 15 packages of wrapped blank checks, 2 unwrapped stacks of blank checks, and different items that prompted a suspicion of transgression activity, KPRC reported.

Police accidental successful the warrant that the societal information cards and treasury checks were sent to Romelus' address, but they had different people's names connected them. Shipping labels, phones, computers, laptops, printers and different physics devices utilized "in the people of creating fraudulent pieces of identifying information" were allegedly recovered successful an office.

Romelus is presently being held connected a $14 cardinal bond. She is owed successful tribunal connected Jan. 14, 2026, for a presumption hearing.