MEMPHIS, Tenn. — “I just know she was brutally murdered and that really hurts,” said Angela Lawson.
Lawson said she will never forget the phone call early Sunday morning.
“He said ‘come over here to get your daughter. She is lying on the floor dead’,” said Lawson.
Her daughter’s boyfriend told Lawson her only daughter, Trenishia Bean, was gone.
“I couldn’t believe God took her too. I had to see it for myself,” she said.
When Lawson got to Crosswater Lane in Southeast Shelby County, Sheriff’s Deputies were everywhere.
The family said Trenishia’s boyfriend, known as Mota, came home with their 4-year-old daughter and his other young child.
The 4-year-old was reportedly the first to notice the body.
“Her mom was laying at the bottom of the stairs and my grand baby said ‘Dad, pick my mom up and take her to the hospital. She is sick’,” said Lawson.
It was heart wrenching for this grandmother.
She said Trenishia’s young daughter thinks her mom was just injured and is away at work.
Sheriff investigators would only say they are working the case.
WREG was told Trenishia’s boyfriend was taken into custody, questioned and then released.
“He was just telling me what they had done to him, said to him. Asked him down there and they stuff the took him through – seeing if gun powder was on him and blood splatter or anything like that,” said Lawson.
In a Facebook post from last month, the boyfriend apologized for embarrassing Trenishia, saying he truly loves her.
Lawson said she didn’t know if he had anything to do with her daughter’s death or if it was a random crime.
“I want to know, and before I die and leave this world, I am gonna find out what happened to my daughter,” she said.
Lawson said there were no real problems between her daughter and the boyfriend.
The two had been dating about 5 years.
The family was stumped on who could do this and adamant on getting justice.
