Insets: Maya Jones, left, and Shamaree Bell-Brown (Charlotte-Mecklenburg Police Department/WSOC). Background: Police responded to the scene of Shamaree Bell-Brown’s murder (WJZY/YouTube).
A mother in North Carolina has come forward to describe the heartbreaking moment her 20-year-old son was stabbed in front of her, allegedly by his pregnant girlfriend — with the mom turning a light on to find him “holding his chest” and his shirt “filling with blood” — before he collapsed in her arms.
“Ma! Please don’t let this happen to me,” Shay Brown recalled her son, Shamaree Bell-Brown, telling her in an interview with local ABC affiliate WSOC. “Mommy, help me,” Bell-Brown said while bleeding out on the kitchen floor, according to Brown.
“Shamaree, you’re going to be OK,” Brown remembered telling him.
“I’m OK,” Bell-Brown said.
The young man “never responded after that,” according to his mom.
“I watched my baby’s life slowly leave his body,” Brown said.
Maya Jones, 20, is accused of fatally stabbing Bell-Brown — her child’s father — in the chest early Monday morning at a residence in the 3400 block of Burkland Drive in southeast Charlotte, according to the Charlotte-Mecklenburg Police Department. Officers responded to the home shortly after 2 a.m. after receiving a call of an assault with a deadly weapon. Brown told WSOC that her son and Jones were fighting and she allegedly witnessed the stabbing while trying to break up the fight.
“I turned the light on, and he was holding his chest, and I looked, and his shirt just started filling with blood,” Brown said. Her son died after being taken to the hospital, WSOC reported.
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Jones, who is charged with murder, has been denied bond and ordered to remain behind bars. She is reportedly 12 weeks pregnant with Bell-Brown’s child.
“He was full of life,” Brown said about her son. “He could make you laugh. He had jokes. That’s one thing he loved was to joke around a lot.”
The grieving mother added, “He loved everyone who loved him.”
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