Jasmiyah and Tasmiyah Whitehead were just 16 and sweet looking. Now they are hardened and looking older than they really are, thanks to the four years they’ve served so far as part of 30-year sentences.
My state of mind at the time was to defend yourself,” explains Jasmiyah. “It wasn’t like a fight on the street. It was more like a fight until somebody dies.”
It all began when the twins failed to get up on time to get ready for school. An argument with their mom ensued. According to the district attorney who prosecuted the girls – Richard Read – their mom told them something like this: “You’re late for school. You’re not going to do what you want to do. You have to live by my rules.”
The twins claim their mom threatened them with a pot from the stove.
“She just started waving the pot around things like that, so I guess she was trying to hit us with the pot,” Jasmiyah claims.
the girls say that when they tried to take the pot away from their mom, a big fight began. Everybody was yelling.
“We all yelling, we all mad,” says Jasmiyah. “Somehow, some way, I don’t know what she got it from, I don’t even remember a knife block but she had a knife.”
Tasmiyah says that at this point her mom tells them to get back. She follows the girls into the living room, where Jasmiyah hits her mom over the head with a vase.
Blood flows.
But their mom keeps on the offensive.
“So my mom is inning the battle with the knife or whatever, so I pick up the pot and hit her with the pot,” says Tasmiyah.
Somehow Tasmiyah gets the knife and their mom uses whatever she can to attack, and that includes her teeth.
“She bit me in the chest and like I said, I’m not that big so when she bit me she latched on to me and I tried to get her off because it hurts so I’m trying to punch her. I guess that’s when Tas stabs her. She stabbed her,” says Jasmiyah.
Somehow the battle continues. Jasmiyah grabs a ribboned medallion and begins to choke her mother. Mom tried to punch backwards and actually throws Jasmiyah off balance momentarily.
Then she grabs the knife and starts stabbing her mother, again and again. The mother collapses but is not dead yet.
The twins pick her up – one by the hands and one by the feet – and carry her to the bathtub. They recall she was still alive because she was crying and trying to talk to them, telling them she hated them and that they were going to jail.
Jasmiyah responds and reportedly told her mom that she was sorry that they didn’t get along. The tub was full of water and the mother couldn’t keep her head up, and after going under a few times, she was gone, gone for good.
But that wasn’t the worst part – the girls say they tried to clean up the house a bit and then head to school. They had put her purse, her cell phone, the knife and pot and put them all in a plastic bag.
They went to school, expecting the police to be there when they got home and their mom gone.
But she was still there when they got home.
Finally, they called the police.
“I’m sorry and I miss her,” says Jasmiyah, sobbing. “It’s not how ya’ll are trying to make it seem. I didn’t hate her. And Tas didn’t hate her either. I guess it was just the heat of the moment and the anger between all three of us.”
Culled from:Farrah Gray
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