NBC News reported that a woman of 26 identified as Skydajah Patterson allegedly murdered her 46-year-old mother, Selma Mclean by beating her to death with a cooking pan in their apartment at Westchester Avenue in New York City Housing Authority’s President Adams Houses in the Bronx in New York in the United States on March 25 at about 3:40 a.m. She called the emergency number 911 immediately after to admit her crime.
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According to sources, the authorities rushed to the spot soon after they received the call and found the elderly woman lying unconscious and unresponsive with injuries on her face and the back of her head. The police took the body of the woman to Lincoln Medical Center where she was declared dead.
Patterson phoned 911 and told an emergency personnel that she had just killed her mother. She also alleges that her mother tried to attack her and she struck her in self- defense. There was no eye-witness to the crime present in the house.
What happened?
When the police arrived they saw that Patterson was still holding the cooking pot that she used for hitting her mother. She confessed that she knocked at the back of her mother’s head with the pot and her mother fell losing her consciousness.
Sources said that the deceased woman reportedly tried to reach out to the police by calling them twice in the past saying that she was being attacked by her daughter. According to the assumptions made by the police, their was a fight between the two woman which led the daughter to take such a step.
The police made an arrest
The police took the daughter into their custody but are yet to release any charges against her.
Testimony of Danayeah Reynolds
Metro reported tha Selma Mclean’s goddaughter, Danayeah Reynolds who is also 26 years old, said that the accused, Skydajah Patterson was under mental health treatment and was released from a psych ward earlier in February.
Reynolds told the New York Post that Mclean messaged her a few moments before she was brutally killed saying that she was afraid of her daughter who started hearing voices and started speaking in the voice of a man that night. She also informed that her godmother was frightened because Patterson was saying that the voices that she heard were telling her that her mother, Selma Mclean was dangerous.
Reynolds added that when she arrived at their house she found out blood stains on the couch after opening the door. The police had told her that Mclean was already dead and that it was too late to bring her back.
According to Reynolds, Patterson’s mental health deteriorated ever since her baby son died back in August, from which she never really moved on from it. She added that the accused was also worried about being separated from her baby’s father and her condition became worse in the previous month when also she had attacked her mother, that time with knives. The goddaughter told the reporters about the demonic voices in Patterson’s head at that time also which told her (Patterson) that her mother was out to get her and that Mclean was a bad person.
At that time Patterson herself called the police and got herself admitted to the psych ward where she spent two weeks after which she was relesed last Tuesday.
Additional information
According to the family, Selma Mclean, the deceased lady had three daughters among whom Skydajah Patterson and another daughter lived with her. The other daughter reached their apartment upon receiving the news of her mother’s death on Monday afternoon and was extremely distressed over the incident.
