According to the Daily News, a Bronx mother who was fatally stabbed by a longtime friend retaliated with a hammer when her assailant threatened to kill her three small children.
Court documents state that Lamont Wilson, the suspected killer of victim Brittany Webb, was intoxicated and had been instructed to vacate her residence when he lost his mind and attacked both her and another visitor who was holding Webb’s 4-year-old daughter.
Speaking from South Carolina, Webb’s mother, Pamela Smith, stated, “You took my child for no reason just because she asked you to leave her house.” This was not what I anticipated. And it is just devastating.
Wilson, 46, is charged with murder, manslaughter, and endangering the welfare of a child in relation to the violent outburst that occurred at approximately 3:30 a.m. on December 6 inside the victim’s residence on Macombs Road close to Inwood Ave. in Highbridge.
She believed she could trust him. The 51-year-old Smith mentioned the suspect. She saw him as a friend, so why did he do this to her? He was referred to as Uncle by my grandchildren. On her couch, he has slept. He was fed by her. He didn’t need to harm my child in that way.
She clarified that her daughter was a good girl. She was a nurturing mom. She went to great lengths for her kids. She was constantly helping other people.
Those who are hungry should be fed, and those who are thirsty should be given something to drink. Give them your grin; they don’t have one.
Before being chased out earlier that evening, the suspect got into a fight with someone else in the second-floor flat, according to a law enforcement source.
The source said he went back and quarreled with Webb, 38. Wilson was inebriated and noisy, so Webb’s mother informed the Daily News that her daughter requested him to leave.
Smith recounted a first-hand story from an upstairs neighbor who was also paying Webb a visit that evening, saying, “She told him to calm down because her kids were asleep.” He had to go if he couldn’t settle down.
According to the source, a 46-year-old friend of Webb’s grabbed Webb’s 4-year-old kid and fled into a bedroom with Webb after Wilson lost it and wouldn’t leave. Webb then closed the door. The upstairs neighbor, who was visiting, hurried home to grab her cell phone so she could dial 911.
According to the source, Wilson began pounding on the bedroom door while threatening to kill Webb’s other two children, who were in a different room and were ages two and four.
According to the source, he entered the bedroom and used a knife to attack Webb. According to the source, Webb then reached for a hammer and struck Wilson in the head, but it was insufficient to prevent him from fatally killing her by stabbing her many times in the chest and back.
The criminal complaint also claims that Wilson, while holding Webb’s little daughter, swung his knife at the friend, injuring him in the leg. Wilson escaped, but later that day, police caught him.
Smith claims that Webb, also known as Country, met her alleged killer approximately six years ago when she relocated from South Carolina to New York. Webb revealed that her children called Wilson Uncle Rob because he would occasionally crash on her couch.
According to Webb’s mother, she had previously spoken with Wilson over FaceTime, and he had promised to watch out for Webb, telling Smith, “You don’t have to worry about country.”
He took care of the children if mom had to go to the grocery store or somewhere else in the area. She fed him if he became hungry. Smith clarified that she provided him with a place to sleep if he needed one. He couldn’t handle her kindness. Even when he was unable to feed himself, she showed him kindness.
And then you just turn around and treat her like this? “No one should have to leave like that,” she said. He didn’t have to harm my child in that way. My baby has three kids. I only had her as a child.
Smith remembered the unthinkable question posed by Webb’s eldest daughter following the murder: That’s our friend. For what reason did he do that? He’s Uncle Rob. Uncle Rob did it to my mother; why?
Javier Solano, Wilson’s attorney, told The News that his client told police he was defending himself.
He suffered a head injury. “He had stitches, for sure,” Solano said. Like a lot of things in life, stories frequently have more than one side. Clearly, something else is happening.
Natalie Washington (64), Wilson’s mother, said her son was protective of her.
I’m stunned. She clarified that he is not an aggressive person. He wasn’t really violent, even when intoxicated. I’m attempting to comprehend that. He would finish a fight even if he didn’t start one.
Wilson’s mother claims that his perspective on life changed when he survived a shooting in the early 2000s.
Washington clarified that he would give you the clothes off his back on an ordinary day. The children adored him, and he dated another young woman.
Less than a month after the shooting murder of her half-brother, Webb, a stay-at-home mother, was killed. On November 8, Nigel Phillips, 37, was shot and killed in a house in Gaffney, South Carolina.
Smith told me that she was devastated that she couldn’t attend his burial. Since then, she has been dealing with it.
Smith said that her daughter, Country, was a devout woman who loved her kids very much.
My baby was a beautiful singer, Smith explained. She was a church singer once. She would perform at funerals. She is a writer. She wrote poems for the funerals of so many friends she had lost.
Webb s childhood was also marred by tragedy, as her father was shot to death in Ohio when she was only ten. The case remains unsolved.
Webb had planned to travel to South Carolina with her children two weeks before Christmas to see her mother. Instead, her mother had to travel up to the Bronx to pick up Webb s children so they could stay with her.
Prior to her death, Webb was arrested for two separate violent incidents. On June 1, she was charged with beating and stomping a woman in Webb s Bronx apartment building.
And on December 1, just five days before her death, Webb allegedly smashed the front windshield, back, and passenger-side windows of a red Honda Accord with an axe about a half-mile from her home. When the car owner and another man approached her, she swung the axe at them, according to a criminal complaint filed against her.
It was not immediately clear what triggered either incident, but Webb s mother claimed her daughter acted in self-defense. Smith claimed the incidents were unrelated to her daughter s murder.
Following both arrests, Webb was released without bail and was scheduled to appear in court on January 16 to face assault and harassment charges.
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