In a harrowing incident in Missouri, a mother was allegedly brutally killed with a hammer by her children’s father, while one of their kids overheard the terrifying event. During the attack, the child was on the line with a 911 operator, reporting, “I hear banging,” followed by the chilling realization, “she is not yelling or nothing anymore … I do not hear her anymore.”

Authorities allege that 34-year-old Felipe Ayala murdered 47-year-old Suzette Flores in the garage of their Springfield residence on Wednesday night. This grim scene unfolded while their child was making a desperate call to emergency services, as detailed in a probable cause affidavit. The police recorded the child’s 911 call, which came in at approximately 11:20 p.m.

“I need somebody; my dad is hitting my mother, I need a police officer,” the child reportedly communicated to the dispatcher. “I don’t know what he is doing to my momma. 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 panic set in, the young caller expressed feeling “very scared” and began to cry, informing the dispatcher that he was “right by the garage” at the time of the call.

“They have been doing this forever, and I am tired of it,” the child reportedly said as officers were en route to the location. “I think my dad is coming,” he added, anxiously asking, “Are they on the way ma’am? I am very scared ma’am.”

The child further revealed that Ayala had been brandishing a knife before the tragedy and was paranoid, thinking people were out to harm him, as noted in the affidavit. The dispute between Ayala and Flores escalated in the garage, and the child recounted witnessing Ayala choking Flores and hitting her on 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.”