Saturday, March 29, 2025 -A babysitter has been charged with f@tally st@bbing a 3-year-old girl in Las Vegas while her father was at work.
On Wednesday, March 26 at approximately 3:36 a.m. local time, Las Vegas Metropolitan Police (LVMPD) "responded to a stabbing incident in the 4200 block of Channel 10 Drive," police stated in a release.
"Arriving officers located a female juvenile suffering
from apparent stab wounds inside of an apartment. Officers provided life-saving
measures until medical personnel arrived. The juvenile was transported to a
local hospital where she was later pronounced deceased," the statement
added.
Police identified the suspect as Marketta Phillips, 41, and
said that she had been "located near the scene and taken into
custody."
The Clark County Office of the Coroner/Medical Examiner
identified the victim as Journei Ross, 3, adding that her cause of de@th was
"multiple stab wounds."
"Through the course of investigation homicide
detectives learned Phillips was babysitting the victim while the father was at
work," the police release continued. "At some point, Phillips stabbed
the victim and then fled the area when the father arrived from
work."
The suspect was booked into the Clark County Detention
Center for Open Murder with a Deadly Weapon, police said. She had her first
court appearance on Thursday, March 27.
The victim's father had found the suspect "covered in
blood surrounded by multiple knives on the kitchen floor" when he returned
home from work, citing an arrest report.
The father allegedly had an on-and-off relationship with
Phillips, and she told police she had been living at the apartment for the past
year, the report noted, according to the station.
Police discovered three sheets of paper at the scene with
notes written with red marker, which read, “See what happens when you [mess]
with people’s lives,” and “Now we both have nothing,” KVVU reported.
Recounting the tragic evening to reporters, Ross told
WTNV that he’d been at work on the night of March 25 while Phillips watched his
daughter, which she had done “numerous times” before. When he arrived home
after 3 a.m. the next morning, he noticed that Phillips had blood on her arms
and then immediately went to check on his daughter
In a harrowing 911 call obtained by CBS affiliate KLAS, Ross can be heard crying, “You killed my [expletive] child!” and “My baby is not breathing. My baby just bled all over the goddamn bed. What the f**k did you do?
Ross told KTNV that he had been living with Phillips for a year. He told the station, “I didn’t know she was a crazy case, you know?”
Ross shared custody of Journei with Whitson, who told reporters that she had never met Phillips before seeing her in the courtroom on Thursday, March 27.
Whitson said, “I didn’t know this woman. Today was literally
the first day I’ve ever seen this woman in my life. This is crazy, she took my
baby.”
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