Police say a mom in Kansas admitted to shooting and killing her son, even though she only meant to scare him with her gun. She is now in jail.
Sedgwick County Jail records show that 46-year-old Tesha Florence, who is also known as Tesha Jenkins, is charged with one count of murder in the second degree, one count of aggravated assault, and one count of aggravated burglary.
The woman who is accused of killing the baby told the police that she had “shot my baby” as she was being arrested earlier this month.
An affidavit obtained says that Jenkins’ apartment on E. Harry Street was the scene of a shooting in the morning of Oct. 9.
The defendant is said to have spent a long time talking about what happened that sad day and showing a lot of sadness.
On the outside, the mom was “emotionally upset” and “fell to the ground and rolled around in distress,” the police report said.
“Jenkins fell to the ground and went limp.” Jones also told Officer Morris to kill her. When I asked her again what was going on, she said she shot her baby by accident.
The document says, “Jenkins said she pointed the gun at him but didn’t mean to shoot him.” Jenkins had blood on her face, so Officer Morris asked her if she was hurt. She told him that she had kissed her child.
The defendant is said to have said that her son was a “bad kid” who liked drugs and wouldn’t go to school at one point.
Someone shot 16-year-old Robert Florence in the head, and he was found lying face down on the living room floor.
According to police, Jenkins told them that her son was supposed to be at school that day, but he chose not to go, so he wasn’t.
After the boy’s two older brothers left the apartment, she called his school to let them know her youngest son wouldn’t be there.
When the teen got home for the day, he allegedly started bothering his mom by calling her “Momma” over and over and begging to use her phone, which she at first refused.
Jenkins told police that he then said he was going to talk to a neighbor below about getting some “weed.”
The affidavit says that her son later asked to use the phone again. He said he was going to call one of his brothers and tell them to “ask their dad for money.”
The mother said she agreed with what her son asked. She said that after the call, her son started “pulling down the curtains and tearing up pieces of paper and throwing them on the floor.” Jenkins thought that her son did bad things just to make her mad.
According to the affidavit, Jenkins said she laid down on the bed and texted a friend at some point. Police say that her son then took a Ruger Security 9 mm out of a backpack.
The affidavit describes the shooting that killed the person as follows:
Police say that during her sanitized interview, the mother said she thought the gun was empty but remembered possibly loading two rounds two weeks before the shooting death.
Detectives say she told them she “racked the slide back,” which means she loaded a round, when she took the gun away from her son.
“Jenkins denied that she meant to shoot Robert, but she did say that she might have meant to fire the gun to scare Robert,” the affidavit says. Jenks confirmed that Robert did not make any threats while holding the gun; he never pointed it at her or said anything; he was just holding the gun.
A bullet hit the teen in the forehead.
Jenkins’s son died on October 11 from his injuries.
Jenkins is accused of breaking into her ex-husband’s house and pointing her gun angrily at him and his 22-year-old girlfriend in a different part of the charging document.
It is said that this happened in March. Police say they found out about the alleged assault and burglary while they were looking into the shooting death.
The defendant is being held in jail on a $1.2 million bond right now.
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