A dramatic and chilling 911 call from a child sent police officers to a Missouri home last week, where they found 47-year-old Suzette Flores beaten to death in the home’s garage and arrested her partner, 34-year-old Felipe Ayala III.
“I need somebody my dad is hitting my mother,” the 911 caller told dispatchers. “I need a police officer.”
The boy told the dispatcher he was scared and began crying as the dispatcher told him to go to the bedroom and lock the door. The boy spoke with other siblings in the house, including an older brother who was heard on the 911 recording saying, “They have been doing this forever and I am tired of it.”
The probable cause affidavit did not provide the ages of the children or the name of the victim. KYTV identified her.
“I think my dad is coming,” the boy who called 911 says at another point, according to the affidavit. “Are they on the way ma’am? I am very scared ma’am.”
“”I do not know what he is doing to my momma,” the boy said. “I hear banging she is not yelling or nothing anymore. It is just quiet. I do not hear her anymore. I do not know what he did to her.”
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The boy starts crying before a male voice calls for the children to come to him. A short time late, the officers arrive, and the boy asks dispatch to tell them to check on his mother, who was in the garage. The officers took the Ayala into custody and brought the caller and his two siblings to safety.
In the garage, the probable cause statement says, police found Flores on the floor of the garage “with her head covered in blood” and “fragments of skull and brain matter around [her] head.”
At a later interview, one of the children told police that their father had been behaving differently lately, including being armed with a knife earlier in the day he beat Flores to death and “believing people were out to get him.” The boy who called 911 told officers that his mother and father began fighting with Ayala choking his mom and hitting her in the head while saying “you made me do this.” He also said that Ayala told the kids they were next.
A neighbor also told police that he heard a woman screaming “please stop” and saw through his window “a larger framed male” pacing in the Ayala garage and “hitting something on the ground.” That witness apparently did not call 911.
Police found a bloody hammer near Flores’ body, and Ayala’s clothing and body had blood spatter. He refused to speak with officers except to claim that a warrant for a DNA sample was “not valid.”
Springfield Police said Ayala had previously been charged with property damage, drug possession, armed criminal action, assault, and domestic assault.
Ayala was charged with first degree murder and is being held without bond.
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[Featured image: Felipe Ayala III/Greene County Sheriff’s Office]