An Atlanta mother will now be spending the rest of her life behind bars after the murder of her two sons who she killed by “placing them in an oven and turning it on.”
This week Lamora Williams, 24, was sentenced to life in prison without parole in addition to 35 years after she was convicted on 14 different charges including the heinous murder of her two sons. This update in the murder case comes after Lamora was arrested in 2017 after her two toddlers, one-year-old Ja’Karter Penn and two-year-old Ke-Yaunte Pen, were both found dead inside her home.
According to a police warrant, the Georgia mother put the two children in her oven and turned the appliance on and burned her children alive. An hour after she did so, Lamora called 911 and told operators that she had come home and found her kids dead after leaving them with a caregiver.
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In the 911 call, Lamora said: “When I came in, the stove was laying on my son, on my youngest son’s head, and my other son was laid out on the floor with his brains laid out on the floor. I don’t know what to do. I just came home from work.”
Lamora Williams was sentenced to life in prison after the murder of her two children ( Image: Atlanta Police Dept.)
But Jameel Penn, the father of the two boys, had a different story. Jameel claimed that during that same night Lamora video-called him and showed him the dead bodies of their shared children. Immediately after Jameel made his own frantic call to 911 urging police to hurry to the residence. According to Fulton County Superior Court records obtained by Fox 5, he recalled: “She video called me and showed me this, and I seen [sic] it. I think they are really dead.”
After mourning the loss of her grandchildren, Lamora’s mother Brenda Williams told WSMV: “My daughter is a sick person if she did what I think she did. Mora wasn’t right, she hasn’t been right and what happened three months ago, that the kids father left her, I told him something tragic is going to happen.”
Lamora killed her toddlers after putting them in the oven and turning it on
One-year-old Ja’Karter Penn and two-year-old Ke-Yaunte Pen were both found dead in her home
She continued: “She’s going to do something to those kids, she’s going to do something to herself. You know we see stuff like this in horror movies, but in my family my two littlest grand kids are gone because of what my daughter did. I might need to get help, this is hard.”
When the case was brought to court, the jury found Lamora guilty on two counts of murder, four counts of felony murder, two counts of aggravated assault, two counts of cruelty to children in the first degree, two counts of concealing the death of another, one count of cruelty to children in the second degree, and one count of giving a false statement.
