The Alabama teen who allegedly stabbed his mom to dying and severely injured his father in a violent knife-wielding assault at their dwelling has been recognized because the army couple’s eldest son, Brandon Baker.
Brandon, 17, was arrested on homicide and tried homicide expenses Sunday following the surprising massacre wherein he butchered his mom, Samantha Baker, 37, and left his father, Lance Baker, 46, bloodied and begging for his life.
Cops hadn’t launched the teenager’s identify resulting from his age, however a next-door neighbor within the Bladwin County neighborhood the place the horror occurred confirmed to The Submit on Tuesday that the suspected killer arrested was Brandon, the couple’s oldest of their two sons.
A social media account run by Samantha additionally confirms that her son Brandon is 17 — the age of the suspect supplied by cops — and a rising senior in highschool.
The Fb web page painted the picture of a beaming household of 4 along with her as a doting mom to her two boys, who gushed over her alleged killer son’s junior promenade photographs and fretted over him rising up too shortly — calling him “my child.”
Samantha, who labored as a realtor, incessantly posted photographs of her household repeatedly attending highschool soccer video games and church providers to the joint Fb account with Lance.
“Welcome to the Baker home. We chuckle then holler then act like nothing occurred till it’s time to holler and chuckle once more. It’s a s*** present over right here. Enter at your personal danger,” she lovingly joked in a single put up.
On Brandon’s birthday final September, she affectionately wrote, “Joyful birthday to my first born! 17 years has flown by! You’re an incredible particular person and but on the similar time you make my blood boil…I really like you, B!”
In one other put up, the mother-of-two wrote that she prays that the couple “increase our boys to be males of God, respectful husband, affected person fathers and good mates.”
Samantha and Lance Baker had been discovered with a number of stab wounds exterior their non-public Belforest group dwelling round 9 p.m. Sunday, WALA reported.
The matriarch of the household was pronounced useless on the scene whereas her husband — who ran door-to-door for assist, forsaking a path of blood — stays in crucial situation within the hospital. He was heard screaming that he “didn’t wish to die,” based on traumatized neighbors.
The married couple, who had met whereas serving within the US Military Reserve, had tried to flee Brandon’s knife-wielding assault that erupted after an argument over their self-discipline of the teenager, the outlet reported.
The 17-year-old had allegedly stabbed his dad and mom inside and out of doors their household dwelling earlier than barricading himself and calling 911, based on the Baldwin County Sheriff’s Workplace.
The household’s youthful teenage son was not on the dwelling on the time of the assault, police mentioned.
Brandon is being held on a $1 million bond following his arraignment on Monday. He’s anticipated to be tried as an grownup.
