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Marketta Phillips allegedly stabbed 3-year-old Journei Ross to death in Las Vegas.
Phillips left messages at the scene, including one written in blood: ‘Everybody who played me is cursed.’
Phillips reportedly confessed to police, stating she ‘snapped’ to ‘get back at’ Jeremy Ross.
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The woman accused of stabbing a US toddler to death allegedly left a chilling six-word message at the scene, written in the little girl’s blood.
Journei Ross, 3, died last Wednesday in father Jeremy Ross’ Las Vegas home after she was allegedly stabbed several times by his “on-and-off girlfriend”, Marketta Phillips, 8 News Now reports.
“I didn’t know she was a crazy case,” Ross said outside court after Phillips made her first appearance last week.
The pair had been living together for about a year and he described her as his “on-and-off girlfriend” and roommate in an arrest report released by Las Vegas police.
Journei Ross, 3, died last Wednesday after she was allegedly stabbed several times by Marketta Phillips. Photo / Jeremy Ross
He said he left Journei in her care when he went to work at 6pm on March 25.
When he arrived home in the early hours of the following morning, he saw Phillips sitting on the kitchen floor with blood on her and “surrounded by multiple knives”.
“She was just out of it or something. I walked into the room and I seen my baby girl …. on the bed,” Ross said.