Body-camera footage shows a Milwaukee mother pleading with officers for help only hours before prosecutors say her daughter beat her to death, turning a long-simmering family crisis into a deadly worst-case scenario.
In a clip obtained by local TV, 64-year-old Carrie Zettel tells officers she is afraid of her 29-year-old daughter and asks police to get her help. Later that same day, investigators found Zettel dead outside her home and arrested her daughter, Lauren Spors, on suspicion of homicide.
The newly released video shows officers arriving at the south-side home around 3 a.m. and finding Spors lying under a tarp in the front yard, while Zettel stands in her doorway describing repeated trouble at the house, according to WISN 12 News. The body-cam audio, which is partially muted for medical privacy, captures Zettel saying, “I’m afraid of her,” as officers talk through offering voluntary help instead of an involuntary detention…