Ferman said the youngest son told police his father became angry Saturday night over a takeout food order and began "punching his mother in the mouth." The boy tried to call for help, but his father ripped out the phone cord, locked the front door, and continued beating his wife. "The boy related that his mother then said to him, 'I'm going to die. I love you,'" the criminal complaint said.
The boy told police his father left the kitchen and put on a pair of shoes, "returned to his mother's body and jumped on her stomach and face at the same time." He said blood came out of his mother's face and she did not move again, the complaint said.
Ferman said the couple's two other sons were away for the night. She said when the oldest son returned to his home in the 100 block of West Eighth Avenue on Sunday, he called 911. She said it was unclear exactly what time the slaying occurred.