Mother accused of killing son with hammer NEW YORK, July 9 (UPI) -- A New York City mother who allegedly beat her 7-year-old boy to death did it because she didn't want anyone else to raise him, her boyfriend said. Tenika Revell, 40, is accused of beating her son Bernard to death with a hammer in her Brooklyn apartment Friday, the New York Daily News reported. Revell's boyfriend, Terrace Johnson, said the woman believes she is dying of breast cancer and she didn't want anyone else raising her son after she died. "She loved him so much she didn't want nobody else to have him," Johnson said. She didn't want her mother or none of them to get Bernard. He told the newspaper she also took medication for anger management and may have resumed using crack cocaine. Johnson said her mental health went down hill after getting pregnant with his child last year and then having an abortion because of her spreading cancer. Johnson said he later learned Revell called her mother to confess the crime and tell her she was going to commit suicide. "Tenika called her mother around 7:30 and told her mother that she killed Bernard and was on her way to killing herself," Johnson said. Revell called 911 about 11 p.m. and confessed then, as well, police said. The mother is facing charges of second-degree murder, manslaughter and endangering the welfare of a child.