A man who was absolutely enraged after his daughter interrupted his video reacted in a really unbelievable manner.
Anthony Michael Sanders
Anthony Michael Sanders, a Texas man bit and smothered his two-year-old daughter in a 'fit of rage' after she interrupted his video-game playing, police say.
According to Daily Mail, Sanders, 31, of Watauga, is alleged to have killed little Ellie Sanders on December 12 while her mom was out of the house at an art show.
When mother Cassie Wright returned home at 8:30pm she was told Ellie was asleep; it was only 30 minutes later, when Ellie's five-year-old brother found out that his sister wasn't waking, that emergency services were called.
'He tried to wake her up and she wouldn’t wake up. He went in there and told [his parents] that she was sleeping and wouldn’t wake up,' Sgt. Jason Babcock, a police spokesman told the Star-Telegram.
Thinking her daughter was just sleeping, the mother told him to let her rest but Sanders went to check on her, and began shouting to call 911.
Ellie was pronounced dead in hospital at 10:10pm, but according to an affidavit, doctors found bruising on her body and fact - including bruising around the eyes - blood behind one ear and bite marks that could have come from an adult human.
She was ultimately killed, police say, when Sanders put his hand over her mouth and asphyxiated her.
'Just a fit of rage-type deal, anger,' Babcock told the Star-Telegram.
'He’s very involved in computer gaming,' he continued. 'That’s something he did constantly. She interrupted him somehow. '
Sanders told police he was the only adult in the house before his wife came home, and that she had been fine 30 minutes before his wife returned - sitting up, watching TV and laughing.
He also said he'd changed her diaper around that time, and that he had no idea what caused her injuries.
He was arrested April 15, after a four-month wait for the Tarrant County medical examiner’s office, which ruled Ellie's death a murder on April 14.