A woman who called the police and confessed to strangling her own mother has been taken into custody, according to police in Arizona.
Elizabeth Ann Ramirez, 59, called 911 and said that she had just killed her mother.
The day before the murder, Ramirez was arrested for a DUI, and believed to be impaired by alcohol and/or drugs at the time.
Before she killed her mom, Ramirez told detectives that she had walked to her mother’s home to borrow her mother’s car, the court records show.
After her mother refused, and told her daughter that she was mentally ill, the murder occurred.
“I didn’t plan this, it just happened,” Ramirez said. “It was a mutual altercation, however I am younger.”
Ramirez was booked into the Maricopa County Jail on one count of second-degree murder.
The judge at her first hearing said the bond was set at $1 million.
Should Ramirez post that, she would be required to wear an electronic monitor and be subject to a curfew.
The next court hearing is on Jan. 24.
“It was mostly shocking because our kids play around here, and I know that the woman who hurt her didn’t live here, but it’s just you don’t really know everybody,” said Pinhero.