The Alabama mother allegedly butchered by her teen son had fought with him about her Fb posts — the place she as soon as griped about his “angle” — within the hours main as much as the ugly assault that additionally left her husband preventing for his life, a neighbor solely revealed to The Submit.
Samantha Baker, 37 — who was discovered lifeless from a number of stab wounds exterior an Augustine Drive residence within the personal Belforest complicated late Sunday — had tried to place her enraged 17-year-old son Brandon in his place earlier that day, in response to the household’s next-door neighbor, Shawn Scurry.
Surveillance digital camera footage taken from Scurry’s residence captured tense audio snippets of the argument that unfolded between the mother-son duo on their entrance porch round 2:30 p.m.
Scurry believed the pair was preventing about Samantha’s Fb, the place she posted about her two sons and her household life.
“He was asking a couple of remark, and she or he was saying it was only a story,” Scurry stated. “She was saying … it wasn’t about him.”
The 51-year-old neighbor stated she assumed, primarily based on the “loud” change, that Samantha’s frequent posts about Brandon “was beginning to harm him.”
“She does discuss sort of impolite concerning the youngsters … and, , they’re youngsters,” Scurry stated.
The mother and father’ 16-year-old son was not residence when his solely brother allegedly charged at his mother and father with a kitchen knife, chasing them out of their residence within the well-kempt complicated, in response to cops.
Chilling pictures shared by Samantha on Fb present her and Lance posing cheerily with their boys at highschool soccer video games, on a dock and inside a church.
“I really like being a soccer mother. I don’t love the best way they scent however exhausting work does stink!” the mother captioned one Oct. 6, 2025, submit, together with a carousel of photographs exhibiting her sons on the sector and smiling after a recreation.
“Welcome to the Baker home…we snicker then holler then act like nothing occurred till it’s time to holler and snicker once more. It’s a s*** present over right here. Enter at your personal danger,” she captioned one other submit every week later.
However her posts typically hinted at much less rosy household dynamics.
In a single submit for “Nationwide Sons’ Day” final yr, the mother wrote that her Brandon was “a candy man” — however then famous “his mouth and angle.”
“He’s a peaceful presence till he isn’t. He marches to the beat of his personal drum,” Samantha continued within the caption.
And in a remaining birthday submit devoted to him, in September, she wrote, “You’re an incredible individual and but on the similar time you make my blood boil.”
Extra lately, in January, Samantha reposted a head-scratching meme that learn: “Light parenting is for mild kids. My thugs will likely be dealt with accordingly.”
She shared the same — now eerie meme — final Might as nicely. It learn: “Solely mother and father with mild kids can mild mum or dad. The remainder of us need to sq. up, and struggle for our lives with the tiny bullies we made,” alongside her caption, “And I do sq. up! I don’t have mild youngsters! They’re feral.”
In response to Scurry, Samantha finally put her foot down on Sunday, ending the argument.
“She [got] the ultimate say and that was for him to go do his chore, which is to mow the garden” — which he then did, she recalled.
“I at all times noticed him mowing the garden … so it didn’t look like it was an issue for him to do it that day,” added Scurry, who stated it was her first time listening to the household argue in roughly one yr since she moved subsequent door.
Brandon is now going through homicide and tried homicide expenses after Samantha and her husband, 46-year-old Lance Baker, had been discovered with quite a few stab wounds hours later at round 9 p.m., in response to cops.
The massacre started after the mother and father bought right into a separate argument with their son over a disciplinary concern inside the home, Baldwin County Sheriff’s Workplace Captain Justin Correa instructed The Submit Wednesday.
That’s when Brandon grabbed the knife and commenced wielding it at his mother and pop — stabbing them each repeatedly as they fled exterior in a determined bid to flee, in response to cops and Scurry.
“You may hear each of them popping out of the home, and there’s like one scream from the mother,” stated Scurry, whose Nest digital camera picked up audio of the sickening assault.
“Then the dad is arguing with the [son] — and after I say arguing, I imply like, ‘Why are you doing this?’ … He’s mainly saying, ‘I don’t need to die. Please cease. No.’ After which he’s repeating, ‘Any individual assist me, please, assist me’ very loudly,” the shaken neighbor defined.
At one level, the audio captures the teenager “telling [the dad] he was gonna kill him. These phrases are within the video,” she added.
Lance’s spine-chilling screams may nonetheless be heard as he ran door to door down the block, leaving bloodied handprints on neighbors’ entrance doorways whereas in search of assist — along with his son proper on his tail, in response to Scurry.
The teenager finally went again residence and known as 911, stated authorities, who described the assault as an remoted home matter.
Cops arrested him with out incident, in response to Correa.
Samantha, a realtor, was pronounced lifeless on the scene.
Earlier than the coroner arrived, “I noticed her face down with stab wounds throughout her again,” Scurry instructed The Submit.
Lance, a US Military Reserve Battalion Commander with the 1184th Deployment and Distribution Help Battalion in Cell, was flown to a neighborhood hospital in important situation, in response to cops.
As of Wednesday, the daddy of two was nonetheless within the hospital, the place he’s in steady situation, Correa stated.
The teenager, who will likely be tried as an grownup, is being held in jail on a $1 million bond after his arraignment on Monday.
