Krista Anne Brunecz: Mother indicted for stabbing death of infant right after Christmas
When police were called to an apartment in Weston, West Virginia days after Christmas 2022, they had no idea what they were walking into: a scene the criminal complaint describes as blood-covered following the death of a three-month-old girl. Now, the infant’s mother has been indicted for the murder, West Virginia Metro News reports.
Chief Deputy Cayton explained in the complaint that upon entering the apartment in the early morning hours of Dec. 30, 2022, one woman sat on the couch with blood running excessively down her head and chest. Another woman knelt in front of the couch, holding a lifeless infant, also covered in blood. And in what must have been a chilling moment, he spotted a bloody butcher knife on the chair next to the couch.
The criminal complaint, obtained by West Virginia Metro News, explains that at about 7:31 a.m. on Friday, December 30, 2022, a woman named Jessica Kirkpatrick called 911 on behalf of her neighbor’s mother, Lorrie Clevenger, and informed the dispatcher that there was “blood all over the apartment and a three (3) month old baby is dead.” Kirkpatrick added that Krista Brunecz, the infant’s 32-year-old mother, was the resident of the apartment.
