- Elizabeth Ann Ramirez, 59, called 911 to report that she ‘snapped’
- She told police she killed her 80-year-old mother who is mentally ill
- Ramirez said she was upset after being told she could not borrow her mom’s car
- The 911 dispatcher urged her to perform CPR on her mother but Ramirez refused
Elizabeth Ann Ramirez, 59, called 911 to tell police she killed her 80-year-old mother who is mentally ill
An Arizona woman has been arrested after she strangled her 80-year-old mother because she wouldn’t let her borrow her car.
Police in Chandler, near Phoenix, say Elizabeth Ann Ramirez, 59, called 911 around 1:30 p.m. to report that she ‘snapped’ and killed her mother, Bertha Gutierrez, who was mentally ill.
When officers got to her home, Ramirez took them directly to her mother’s body.
She said that she ‘just snapped’ after a fight with her mom because she wouldn’t lend her the car.
Ramirez also told the 911 dispatcher that she wouldn’t perform CPR to try to revive her.
When she was asked by the emergency operator if her mother was dead, Ramirez replied: ‘I hope so.’
Ramirez, seen in the bottom right hand corner in custody, said she was upset after being told she could not borrow her mom’s car
Court documents seen by FOX10 Phoenix show that Ramirez was arrested for DUI a day before the deadly incident.
She’s has now been booked into the Maricopa County Jail on one count of second-degree murder with bond set at $1 million.
Ashley Pinhero, Gutierrez’s next door neighbor said that the incident was shocking.
‘It’s really sad because, you know, somebody who could do that do that to their own mother, considering the circumstances especially,’ she said.
The attack happened at Ramirez’s mother’s home in Chandler, near Phoenix, Arizona