Former Fox Anchor Charged With Stabbing Mother

A quiet Wichita neighborhood was left stunned last week after police arrested Angelynn Mock, a former Fox morning show fill-in anchor, who is accused of brutally stabbing her 80-year-old mother, Anita Avers, to death on Halloween morning.

According to neighbors, Mock, 47, appeared outside the home covered in blood just before 8 a.m. Friday.

“There was a woman who approached our vehicle with like blood, like her hands were filled, her body was filled with blood, asking to call 911,”
neighbor Alyssa Castro said.

Castro told reporters that Mock grabbed her boyfriend’s phone and bolted back inside. Sedgwick County dispatchers later confirmed that Mock phoned authorities and said she “stabbed [her] mother to save herself.”

When police arrived, they found Mock outside with significant lacerations on her hands. Inside, Avers was discovered unresponsive in her bed with multiple stab wounds, according to Wichita Police. She was transported to a nearby hospital where she was pronounced dead roughly 30 minutes later.

Mock is now charged with first-degree murder and is being held at Sedgwick County Jail on $1 million bond.

Castro, still shaken, told local press she was simply trying to help in the moment.

“Like, we never know what anyone is going through. This happened randomly, but as long as we were able to get 911 and see what we can do, that’s all I really care about,”
she said.

Avers worked as a marriage and family therapist with Wichita Counseling Professionals, according to colleagues and her spouse. Her daughter, Mock, previously worked at KTVI Fox 2 in St. Louis as a fill-in anchor from 2011 to 2015 before shifting into corporate sales and later data management.

Social media posts showed the pair appearing close. The Daily Mail noted that Avers’ Facebook profile picture featured Mock reporting live from a baseball game, and another photo showed mother and daughter hugging and smiling.

“The details surrounding the stabbing remain unclear. The Daily Mail contacted the Wichita Police Department for more information,”
the outlet reported.

A motive has not yet been established, and court scheduling information was not immediately available.

This tragedy comes as Missouri was making headlines for another reason: the U.S. Supreme Court’s refusal to take up the state’s attempt to reinstate the Second Amendment Preservation Act, a Republican-backed law blocking enforcement of certain federal gun regulations.

The 2021 law — passed by Missouri’s GOP legislature and signed by then-Governor Mike Parson — asserted that several federal restrictions violated the constitutional right to “keep and bear arms.”

However, lower courts sided with the Biden DOJ, arguing the law violated the Supremacy Clause, which declares federal law superior to state law. The Supreme Court’s decision leaves that ruling in place — a setback for state-level gun rights protections and another reminder of the ongoing national battle over the Second Amendment.