By Daily Mail (U.S.) | Created at 2025-03-28 17:26:30 | Updated at 2025-03-31 12:29:42
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A killer babysitter wrote 'everybody who played me is cursed' in blood on the wall after killing a toddler, cops say, as harrowing 911 audio emerged.
Marketta Phillips, 41, was arrested on Wednesday for the death of Journei Ross, three, who died from multiple stab wounds in Las Vegas, Nevada.
Jeremy Ross, Journei's father, came around from work around 3:30am to find his roommate and on-again-off-again girlfriend sitting on the kitchen floor surrounded by knives and covered in blood, according to 8 News Now.
When he walked into the bedroom, he found his daughter unresponsive and began chest compressions.
Written on the wall, Phillips allegedly wrote the twisted six-word phrase in blood: 'Everybody who played me is cursed.'
Phillips told detectives she had 'snapped' and stabbed Journei 'more than once' to 'get back at' Ross, the local outlet reported.
Ross frantically called 911, telling the dispatcher: 'My baby isn't breathing anymore. A crazy girl cut my baby up.'
Journei, who was on the spectrum, suffered at least 10 stab wounds on the torso, legs, and neck, her mother Phalan Whitson told 8 News Now.
Marketta Phillips, 41, was arrested on Wednesday for the death of Journei Ross, three, who died from multiple stab wounds
Journei Ross is pictured in an older photo. The toddler met a horrific end in Vegas earlier this week
Jeremy Ross, Journei's (pictured) father, came around from work around 3:30am to find his roommate and on-again-off-again girlfriend sitting on the kitchen floor surrounded by knives and covered in blood. When he walked into the bedroom, he found his daughter unresponsive and stabbed
Ross (pictured with Journei's mom) frantically called 911, telling the dispatcher: 'My baby isn't breathing anymore. A crazy girl cut my baby up'
'My child is f**king three years old The f**k is you doing?' the father asked Phillips while on the 911 call. 'My baby is not breathing. My baby just bled all over the f**king bed.'
Phillips then left the home, where Ross can be hearing tell the woman to come back.
'You get back here,' he called. 'What the f**k? What you do? No!'
The alleged murderer left the apartment on foot while police were on their way to the residence. They were able to locate her around 5am in the parking lot near the complex, finding her with blood on her hands, according to 8 News Now.
She was uncooperative while officers tried to arrest her and she had to be tasered, according to 8 News Now.
Police found several bloody knives and scissors in the apartment, as well as sheets of paper with notes on it.
Some of the notes read: 'See what happens when you [redacted] with people's lives' and 'now we both have nothing,' the local outlet reported.
Phillips is being held without bail and made her first court appearance on Thursday.
Journei (pictured with parents), who was on the spectrum, suffered at least 10 stab wounds on the torso, legs, and neck. Written on the wall in the room she died, Phillips allegedly wrote in blood: 'Everybody who played me is cursed'
Whitson remembers her daughter's love of singing and her ability to 'light up a room wherever she was'
Ross and Phillips had been living together for about a year and the father said he had no idea she suffered from any problems. 'I didn't know she was a crazy case,' he said
Ross and Phillips had been living together for about a year and the father said he had no idea she suffered from any problems.
'I didn't know she was a crazy case,' he told 8 News Now.
Whitson and Ross shared custody of the little girl. The girl had been in Ross' care since Monday when the father picked her up.
'She took my baby,' Whitson told 8 New Now. 'I didn’t know this woman. Today [Thursday] was literally the first day I saw this woman.'
Whitson remembers her daughter's love of singing and her ability to 'light up a room wherever she was.'
'I deserve justice,' the mother said.
'She didn’t deserve none of this,' Ross said.
Phillips is expected back in court on Tuesday.
