Robin McKinzie is charged with aggravated child abuse and endangerment after her 10-year-old son died from a stabbing
Police in Tennessee say a 10-year-old boy fatally stabbed himself while his mother was beating and choking him.
Memphis police found the boy bleeding from his chest at an apartment Saturday afternoon.
Jaheim McKinzie was taken to a hospital, where he was pronounced dead.
A police report says Robin McKinzie is charged with aggravated child abuse.
According to an arrest affidavit, McKinzie told police she was whipping her son with an extension cord and choking him when he ran into the kitchen and stabbed himself with a knife.
10-year-old Jaheim McKinzie was found bleeding from the upper torso. He was unresponsive when emergency crews arrived. The child was rushed to the hospital, but was pronounced dead an hour later
Memphis police found the boy bleeding from his chest at his apartment on Saturday afternoon
McKinzie remained in jail Monday on an aggravated child abuse charge and $100,000 bond. Her charges could change pending the medical examiner’s investigation.
The boy was a fourth-grade student at Cornerstone Prep-Denver Campus. Principal Michelle Lyons says grief counselors and police came to the school Monday.
McKinzie’s told WREG that they were in disbelief after hearing about the death of the young boy.
‘All I can say is that she was a good mother, and her son was her life,’ said a close friend of McKinzie’s who did not want to be identified. ‘Her son was her life.’
Police said the mother admitted to whipping Jaheim and choking him
Robin McKinzie, told first responders she was whipping her son with an extension cord and choking him as a form of punishment when he ran into the kitchen and stabbed himself
A close friend of McKinzie’s who does not want to be identified says that McKinzie became distant this past year, and she didn’t know why.
Several local pastors went to Jaheim’s school, Denver Elementary on Monday morning.
‘I haven’t had to do something that difficult in a long time,’ Pastor Deandre Brown said to Fox13.
Police said the mother admitted to whipping Jaheim and choking him.
‘The fact they were just with this young man Saturday and to hear how he died was very traumatizing for them,’ Pastor Charlie Caswell said.
Robin admitted to using an extension cord to beat and choke her 10-year-old, but she said he was the one who stabbed and killed himself with a kitchen knife
People who saw the child on Saturday told the news station that the boy was seen throwing rocks at the window of an apartment on Saturday afternoon.
Jaheim was then called inside by his mother.
Ten minutes later, his mother Robin was seen running out of her own apartment screaming for help.
She then told officers the boy got angry, ran into the kitchen, and stabbed himself in the chest with a kitchen knife.
Police are continuing to gather evidence in order to determine what led to the child’s death.