‘Her face was just obliterated’: 18-year-old beat her grandma to death with rubber mallet before breaking into neighbor’s home and demanding her car keys, police say

An Alabama woman stands accused of beating her grandmother to death with a mallet and then breaking into her neighbor’s home, pleading for help.

Jailen Lupton, 18, faces charges of murder and second-degree burglary, according to Mobile County Sheriff’s Office records. The charges arose from a deadly incident that took place on Saturday.

Deputies say they arrived at the 10300 block of Beverly Road in Irvington, around 20 miles southwest of Mobile, due to a medical emergency. Once there, they found Diane Trest, 70, “unresponsive in her front yard with head trauma,” the sheriff’s office said in a press release. Trest was pronounced dead, and a mallet was found nearby…

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