A 92-year-old woman has been charged with the murder of her son after allegedly telling him "you took my life, so I'm taking yours” over his decision to place her in a care home. Anna Mae Blessing is accused of shooting her 72-year-old son during an argument at their home in Maricopa County, Phoenix, Arizona. Police were called to the property at around 10am on Monday night by the son’s girlfriend, who reportedly disarmed Blessing in a struggle after the incident. According to the Maricopa County Sheriff's Office, Blessing said she had been thinking about her son’s plan to place her in a home for a number of days prior. She told detectives that she took two pistols and concealed them in the pockets of her robe before confronting her son in his bedroom. The nonagenarian had moved in with her son four months earlier and his girlfriend told officers she had “become difficult to live with”. In her statement to police, his girlfriend said Blessing told her son she was tired of the way she was being treated by the pair. The sheriff’s report said during the confrontation Blessing pulled out one of the pistols and fired multiple times at her son.<doc-sep>An elderly mother shot her son dead because he was thinking about putting her in a nursing home, according to police. Anna Mae Blessing, 92, shot and killed her 72-year-old son, whose name was not released by police, at around 10 a.m. on Monday. The incident, which police described as "a bizarre turn of events," took place at the home she shared with her son and his girlfriend in Fountain Hills, Arizona. Maricopa County Sheriff's Office said in a release that Blessing told detectives she had been thinking for several days about her son's intentions to put her in an assisted living facility. She armed herself with two pistols which she concealed in the pockets of her robe before confronting her son in his bedroom. During that confrontation, she took out a handgun and fired multiple rounds at her own son, killing him. Blessing then turned the gun on his girlfriend who disarmed the aged woman after a struggle. When Blessing pulled out the second gun in her possession, her son's girlfriend knocked it out of her hand before calling deputies. "It is always concerning when domestic issues escalate to violence or tragic outcomes," Sheriff Paul Penzone said in a statement. "They are often isolated and neither predictable nor preventable." Blessing, who was born in 1925 and is only five feet tall, is charged with one count of first degree murder, one count of kidnap, and one count of aggravated assault with a deadly weapon. She is being held in jail on a $500,000 cash-only bond and is scheduled to appear in court on Tuesday. A first degree murder conviction in Arizona can carry the death penalty or life in prison without parole. Despite her age, Blessing is some way off becoming the oldest murderer in American history. That grim accolade may well belong to Michael Juskin who aged 100 in 2015 killed his 88-year-old wife Rosalia at their New Jersey home. Bergen County Prosecutor John Molinelli said Juskin first attacked his wife with an axe as she slept before taking his own life with a knife in the bathroom. Separately, a centenarian woman narrowly missed facing trial for strangling a roommate at the Massachusetts care home in which she lived. Laura Lundquist was 98 in 2009 when she was charged with murdering 100-year-old Elizabeth Barrow, who was found dead in her bed with a plastic bag over her head. But Lundquist's dementia was so severe that she was eventually deemed unfit for trial aged 102 in 2014.<doc-sep>A 92-year-old woman was charged with murder for allegedly shooting her son after he threatened to move her into an assisted living facility, authorities said. Anna Mae Blessing allegedly pulled two pistols from her robe at about 10 a.m. Monday fired one several times at her unidentified 72-year-old son inside his Fountain Hills, Arizona home, Maricopa County Sheriff’s Office ABC station KNXV reported.. Deputies responding to a 911 call found Blessing lounging in a recliner and, as she was put in cuffs, Blessing allegedly said, "You ended my life, so I'm taking yours," according to the sheriff's report acquired by KNXV. A 911 phone call made from the home suggests that Blessing may have been a threat to commit further bloodshed. "Complainant is saying that Anna is coming for her now, there's a lot of screaming," the 911 operator is heard saying in a recording. Blessing allegedly pointed a second gun at the dead son's girlfriend and they tussled over it. "She still has a gun," the 911 operator was recorded telling dispatch. "I have another woman crying out that she's gonna get shot." But the late son's girlfriend managed to wrest control of the weapon from Blessing's hand, authorities told KNXV. For six months, court records show, Blessing had taken up residence at her son's home in Fountain Hills, approximately 40 miles northeast of Phoenix, the station reported. She told authorities that she bickered with her son before drawing the firearms about how she was being treated and angered over his decision to move her out of his home and into assisted living, officials said. "According to statements provided by suspect Blessing and received by the detectives, she had been contemplating for several days her son’s intentions to place her in an assisted living facility," the sheriff's stated in a release. Blessing told detectives she acquired both handguns back in the 1970s — one bought at a gun store and the other handed down from her late husband, according to statements she made to detectives. At her arraignment on Tuesday, Blessing was ordered held in lieu of a $500,000 bond, KNXV reported.<doc-sep>
A 92-year-old woman from Fountain Hills, Arizona was arrested for killing her son who attempted to transfer her to a retirement home. According to the Maricopa County Sheriff’s Office, Anna Mae Blessing shot her 72-year-old unidentified son on Monday, July 2, in their shared residence. She also tried to shoot his 57-year-old girlfriend but was unsuccessful at her attempt. ADVERTISEMENT Blessing said her son wanted her to move to an assisted facility. According to court records, she told police that he wanted her out because she “was difficult to live with.” Records also stated that the suspect had contemplated about his decision for days. On the day of the shooting, Blessing hid two pistols in the pockets of her robe. She then went to the master’s bedroom of their home, then confronted the two about their decision. She then fired two shots that struck her son. Blessing then tried to aim at her son’s girlfriend, but she was able to wrestle it from the suspect’s hand. The girlfriend also grabbed the second pistol from her robe. The document also stated that after the episode, Blessing sat on a recliner and tried to kill herself, though failing in her attempt. By the time she was arrested and being escorted away from the residence, she reportedly remarked, “You took my life, so I’m yours.” She was charged with one count of first-degree murder, one count of aggravated assault with a deadly weapon and one count of kidnapping. JB RELATED STORIES: 94-year-old Florida woman jailed for refusing to leave apartment South Dakota women arrested for ‘forcing’ child to smoke marijuana