Phoenix woman accused of shooting, killing other woman; kept body on couch as 'shrine

I tell you, it is the heat in Phoenix that is driving people nuts there!



Source: [link to www.abc15.com]

PHOENIX - A 39-year-old woman in Phoenix is accused of shooting another woman and then keeping her body on a sofa as a "shrine," according to court documents.

Emergency dispatchers received two 911 calls on Saturday evening, Dec. 26, from people who reported a dead female inside an apartment near 15th and Missouri avenues, records show.

Officers responded and found a black female wrapped in a towel, dead on the sofa. Records say the unidentified victim died of a gunshot wound to the head and may have been pregnant.

The apartment's tenant, Anitra L. Braxton, initially told officers that she lived alone and that no one was inside the apartment. After officers found the body, Braxton was taken to police headquarters, Mirandized and interviewed.

She told detectives that the victim was "a shrine from God and was actually her own body," according to police records. She said the victim was shot for "not believing in her God" and that the body had been there for two or three days.

Police said they believe the scene had been partially cleaned up.

Braxton was booked into jail on one count of first-degree premeditated murder. She's being held on a $750,000 bond.

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