Texas escort tells court she murdered her grandmother after thinking she was practicing witchcraft against her: I thought the energy was on me

A Texas woman admitted to brutally beating and stabbing the grandmother who raised her to death while having a courtroom meltdown and claims “voices” and believing her grandma was practicing “witchcraft” drove her to murder.Tamera Laws, 28, was hysterical as she testified in her own defense in a San Antonio court Thursday for the 2020 murder of Doris Novella, 70, inside her home, according to WOAI.“Who does that?” Laws shouted through her tears on the stand.“She’s never done anything for me to want to kill her for.”Prosecutors allege Laws — whose attorney argues she should be found not guilty by reason of insanity — choked, stabbed, and repeatedly struck Novella with a hammer, killing her.“Do you remember stabbing your grandmother?” prosecutors asked her.“This is too much,” Laws replied, holding back tears.She was able to pull herself together and said she “used her hands” and beat her with a hammer.“I thought the energy was on me, so I was thinking to get it off, I had to beat it out,” Laws told prosecutors.The disturbed woman then said she stabbed her “in the throat” to finally kill her grandmother.When asked if she was in her “right mind” during the murder, Laws said “no” and said if she was, she would have never killed Novella.“Did you know at the time what you were doing was wrong,” the prosecutor asked her.“No,” she replied.Laws shared that she was struggling with meth addiction and working as an escort leading up to the murder.

Around this time, she claims that “voices” were telling her “people were trying” to kill her.“I would hear voices in my head telling me that people were trying to kill me,” she said.“I was like, I know my grandma’s trying to kill me.I was afraid that my grandma was going to do witchcraft on me.”Laws also told the court her father was the one who told her that Novella was practicing “witchcraft” against her.She spoke with her father twice on the phone o...