The mother of killer FedEx driver Tanner Horner broke down sobbing while testifying she was furious at her son for strangling 7-year-old Athena Strand to death – but said she still loved him nonetheless.
“I’m so mad at him. I want to just tear his eyes out,” Horner’s mother testified through tears in a Texas courtroom Wednesday. “She was just a baby.”
“Of course I love my son,” she said. “I don’t love who did that though. I don’t know who that was.”
The mother then broke down in tears, prompting the judge to call a recess.
Her 42-year-old son admitted to the 2022 slaying of the innocent girl, who he viciously strangled to death after kidnapping her during a package delivery.
Horner’s defense is trying to spare him the death penalty. He faces a minimum sentence of life in prison.