A Texas mother has been charged after prosecutors alleged she entered her 14-year-old son's bedroom in West El Paso carrying a baseball bat and a knife, then stabbed him while he was playing video games. Janie King, 44, faces a charge of aggravated assault with a deadly weapon after the 2 September incident, in which the boy was taken to hospital and survived.
For context, the El Paso Police Department responded at about 5:47 p.m. to a report of a stabbing at a home in the 400 block of Nordstrom Avenue. The incident later led to a SWAT standoff lasting about four hours and 33 minutes, ending when King was taken into custody at about 10.20pm.
