Jaydee Watts has been arrested and charged in connection to her mother Lynda Watts' suicide in Oklahoma City in September.Photo:Midwest City Police Dept
Midwest City Police Dept
A woman has been arrested after being accused of allegedly helping her mother commit suicide in Oklahoma.
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“During the investigation, detectives learned the deceased’s daughter, 44-year-old Jaydee Watts, intentionally provided a firearm to the victim which prompted the victim to take her own life,” the police stated.
The suspect was the main caregiver for her mother, who suffered from dementia, at the time of her death,KOCO Newsreported, per theNew York Post.
According to the outlet, which cites court documents, authorities obtained footage from inside the victim’s home on the day of the incident showed Watts telling her mother in her bedroom to “take your pill or choke on it and die” among other verbally abusive language, before she left and came back with a handgun.
Watts then took the firearm out of the holster and said to her mother, “Do with it what you f—— will,” leaving it behind. She left for a moment and came back and threatened to lock her mother in the bedroom as she carried a drill. Watts’ mother then shot herself twice.
“[Watts] suggested that she take her own life, very sadly she did,” Oklahoma City police Master Sergeant Dillon Quirk told theNew York Post.
Watts turned herself in after a warrant for her arrest was issued, according to the outlet. She was then placed in jail in Midwest City, Oklahoma,ABC 15 Newsreported.
Watts has since been bonded out of jail for $1 million, according to theNew York Post.
Police stated that an investigation is “still in the early stages,” following Watts’ release.
source: people.com
