In a shocking incident in Missouri, a mother was allegedly killed with a hammer by her children’s father while one of the children was on the phone with 911, listening to the tragic event unfold. The child reportedly told the dispatcher, “I hear banging” followed by “she is not yelling or nothing anymore… I do not hear her anymore.”

Authorities have accused 34-year-old Felipe Ayala of murdering 47-year-old Suzette Flores in the garage of their Springfield residence on Wednesday night. According to a probable cause affidavit, the child made the urgent 911 call around 11:20 p.m., as detailed by Springfield Police.

The distressed child reportedly told the dispatcher, “I need somebody; my dad is hitting my mother, I need a police officer.” The child expressed uncertainty about what was happening, adding, “I hear banging, she is not yelling or nothing anymore. It is just quiet. I do not hear her anymore. I do not know what he did to her.”

As the call continued, the young caller, described as very scared, began to cry and said he was near the garage when he made the call. “They have been doing this forever and I am tired of it,” the child told dispatchers while officers were en route to the scene. He added, “I think my dad is coming. Are they on the way ma’am? I am very scared ma’am.”

“They have been doing this forever and I am tired of it,” the child alleged, as officers were being dispatched to the home. “I think my dad is coming,” he said. “Are they on the way ma’am? I am very scared ma’am.”

According to the child, Ayala had been wielding a knife before the incident and “kept believing people were out to get him,” the affidavit says. Ayala and Flores began fighting and arguing in the garage and the child told police he saw Ayala choking Flores and striking her in the head.

“You made me do this,” Ayala allegedly told her as the deadly assault was happening, according to the child. “Ayala looked at him and the other juveniles in the home saying they were next,” the affidavit says.

Three children were home at the time of the alleged murder and Ayala called them to the garage, according to the affidavit.

Police showed up around 11:22 p.m. and ordered Ayala to come outside. As he was doing so, cops “observed droplets of blood on various parts of Ayala’s body,” which were consistent with “blood transfer with velocity and not smearing,” the affidavit says.

An officer asked Ayala to provide the code to the garage door opener to check for the source of the blood, and once the garage door was open they saw Flores lying on the ground with her head “covered in blood.” The officer observed “fragments of skull and brain matter” around the mother’s head, and a hammer nearby.

“The striking end of the hammer was coated in blood and tissue,” the affidavit says.

Police questioned neighbors and one recalled hearing a female “screaming loudly something to the effect of ‘please stop,’” according to the affidavit. The neighbor said they looked outside and saw a male “pacing in the garage” and “hitting something on the ground,” per the affidavit.

“He could see the male, ‘beating something on the ground multiple times and pacing around the garage a lot,’” the affidavit recounts, noting how the garage was open and a truck was parked outside of it. “He said the male would walk around and then beat the ground a few more times and then pace around again.”

The beating lasted for 15 to 20 minutes, according to the neighbor, before the garage door was allegedly closed by Ayala. Investigators asked the neighbor, who identified Ayala as the male he saw attacking Flores, to re-enact the motion that Ayala was making and he started “making a downward motion from above his shoulder … consistent with a hammering motion,” the affidavit says.

Police arrested Ayala and charged him with first-degree murder and armed criminal action. He was being held without bond over the weekend while awaiting his next court date.

A GoFundMe that was started for Flores’ children says she “wanted nothing but a good life for her and her boys,” per the description.

“Her life was taken suddenly and viciously,” the GoFundMe says. “She was robbed of the chance to watch her babies and grand babies grow, and they were robbed of a life with their mother and grandmother.”