A Tennessee man allegedly murdered the mother of his children by driving her on his lawn in front of him

A man from Tennessee was accused of murdering his wife by repeatedly striking her and beating her head with a stone.

Santrez Traylor, 34, was arrested by police Sunday night after witnesses claimed to have heard Amanda Petrowski's cries. Traylor has been arrested several times in the past for domestic violence. He would also be the father of the victim's children.

Addressing Fox 5 News, his neighbor Jay Smoot said such things were not happening in the quiet Orange Mound neighborhood in Memphis. "We saw a car driving on the lawn and we did not know what was happening where we could see," Smoot said. "But it turned out that we were witnessing the murder, I did not know the seriousness of what was happening right in front of the street."

Traylor reportedly beat the victim with a brick or a rock and then climbed several times in his car near the porch, near the porch. When the police arrived, they reported the discovery of traces of bloody tires on the lawn. Traylor tried to run away when the police arrived.

"He tried to flee the cops, he went through the yard and found himself in the street, the cops fled, it's the last of what we've seen from here." incident, "said Smoot. "We feel bad for the kids and for his mother, I heard when they told her mother what had happened, it was just heartbreaking."

Traylor was charged with second degree murder and two counts of aggravated assault. Petrowski was declared dead on the scene. According to the Commercial Appeal, Traylor had threatened to place a child "across the wall".

Earlier this month, an Australian was convicted of murdering his wife with a machete. Kevin John Keath had planned a suicide pact with his wife, Kerrie Ann, 68, at their home in York, Western Australia. According to a suicide note left by Kerrie Ann, the deceased wife and mother had asked her husband to kill her because she "was not strong enough".

"To whom … please note that Kevin and I have had a suicide pact for a while," she said in the letter. "You can see that my attempts have failed. I am not strong enough, so Kevin will send me to my request and then himself as an act of love for me. "

But after killing his wife, Keath had a last minute change of heart and said he did not want to leave his body there to be eaten by rats. He told the police that he had handled the machete too badly and that he was afraid of "taking off his head." The murder took place on March 8th. He was sentenced to life imprisonment with a minimum sentence of 10 years on Friday.