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(NewsNation) — It whitethorn beryllium a bully happening Cheryl Edwards had conscionable finished mopping floors astatine her location successful Irvington, Alabama, moments earlier an accused murderer stormed her residence.
The cleaning utensil was useful erstwhile 18-year-old neighbour Jailen Lupton invaded her spot July 26 and said, “I killed my grandma.”
“Her eyes were large arsenic saucers. They were blood-red, and she had humor connected her,” Edwards told “Banfield” connected Friday, aft doorbell video of her warring disconnected the teen with the mop went viral.
Authorities accidental Lupton fatally bushed her grandmother, 70-year-old Diane Marrow Trest, who was recovered dormant successful her beforehand gait with caput trauma. There was a mallet nearby.
Camera detected intruder
Edwards said she had completed her housework and was getting acceptable to deed the ablution erstwhile her backmost doorway camera alerted her that idiosyncratic was there. She said she observed Lupton trying to interruption into her sister’s RV.
A convulsive brushwood ensued connected the beforehand porch, Edwards said, with some women shoving each different earlier Edwards grabbed the mop and pressed Lupton back. The older pistillate tin beryllium heard screaming, "Get out!" respective times connected the viral video.
“I bash person a gun, but it was locked up successful my harmless due to the fact that my granddaughter was here,” Edwards told "Banfield."
Lupton soon returned and kicked successful Edwards' doorway successful an evident effort to get car keys for an escape.
“She did get wrong my house, but she did not get anything,” Edwards said. “She tally down the driveway and she astir got deed by a vehicle.”
'It had to beryllium drugs'
Edwards flagged down the operator of the conveyance to inquire for help. They went to cheque connected Trest, adjacent door, and recovered the woman’s body.
For her part, Edwards is baffled astir what caused Lupton, a caller precocious schoolhouse graduate, to allegedly termination the grandma who had taken her in.
“She was a beauteous young lady, and past successful a substance of 2 months … it had to beryllium drugs, that’s the lone happening I tin say, explicate however she changed from 1 decent idiosyncratic to the benignant of idiosyncratic she was Saturday. It was horrible.”
Lupton pleaded not blameworthy to execution and second-degree burglary charges this week and is being held connected $380,000 bond.
Edwards said she’s doing each right, physically and emotionally, and has a caller fastener connected her door.
