A Texas man is behind bars after he repeatedly stabbed his mother in the heart, face and the back of her head and later told cops killing her was “something I needed to do.”
Gerren Miles Crosson, 34, is charged with murder in the death of his 71-year-old mother, identified in court records as Alta Green Veasley. The Houston Police Department responded around 2:30 a.m. Wednesday to an assault call at a home in the 11000 block of Harristown Drive, which is on the city’s south side. When cops arrived, they found Veasley suffering from multiple stab wounds.
Court records say she suffered a total of six stab wounds: two each to the heart and face and one each to the back of her head and right arm. Veasley made a dying declaration when she identified her attacker as her son to responding deputies. Paramedics rushed her to the hospital, where doctors pronounced her dead…