Daughter finds her mom beaten to death by hammer, TN cops say. Grandson arrested
A 23-year-old man beat his grandmother to death with a hammer, leaving his mom to find her body, Tennessee authorities said.
Kerrien Dates is charged with first-degree murder and theft of property, $10,000 to $60,000, Shelby County records show.
Dates' mom told officers with the Memphis Police Department that her son had been living with her mom, and the two had recently been fighting, according to an affidavit.
The mom said she told the grandmother to kick Dates 'out of her house for safety,' police wrote.
Then at about 4:30 p.m. on June 4, the woman called 911 to say she had found her mother at home bleeding, lying next to a bloody hammer, according to police.
It appeared as if she had just gotten home when she was attacked, according to police.
She 'had her backpack on along with her lunch bag as if she just came into the house from work,' officers wrote in the affidavit.
The grandmother had four wounds on the back of her head caused by blunt force trauma, and a paramedic pronounced her dead at the scene, police said.
The grandma's Chevrolet Camaro was missing from the home, prompting police to put out an alert for the vehicle, officers said.
Police in Jackson, Tennessee, pulled Dates over about 90 miles outside of Memphis, but when they asked him why he thought he was being pulled over, he said he hit his grandmother 'in the head with a hammer and I think I killed her,' according to the affidavit.
He was taken into custody in Jackson, police said.
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