DCFS Gives Mom 2 Year Old, She Cuts Off His HEAD & Puts It In Freezer

A Camden, N.J., mother decapitated her 2-year-old son she only recently regained custody of before stabbing herself to death early Wednesday morning.

33 year old Chevonne Thomas, and her son, Zahree Thomas, were found dead by police who stormed their home after responding to a 911 call after midnight from the woman saying someone had harmed her son.

The headless child was found on the first floor, his mother in her second floor bedroom, according to multiple media reports. The boy’s head was found in the freezer.

When police first arrived, Chevonne Thomas was still on the phone with emergency operators. Not knowing if she was armed or if anyone else was still in the home, police retreated and formed a perimeter. By the time cops broke a second floor window and entered the residence, the woman was found dead from a self-inflicted stab wound to her neck.

The shocking crime stunned cops hardened from decades of experience in one of the country’s most violent cities.

Chevonne Thomas was previously arrested in November 2010 for endangering the welfare of a child. She allegedly left Zahree unattended in a vehicle for an unspecified amount of time.

Thomas told officials she had smoked “wet,” a mixture of PCP and marijuana, before blacking out and forgetting where she left her then-10-month-old son.

The charges had to be “administratively dropped,” according to authorities, because “a witness gave contradictory statements.”

The New Jersey Department of Youth and Family Services took custody of Zahree, but the child was returned to Thomas only 4 months ago.

Neighbor Melanie Troutman saw the distraught woman sitting topless on her front steps with her boyfriend a few hours prior to her 911 call, reported the paper. She says Thomas was “clearly upset.

“She was a good mother. She helped the family, she helped the neighbors, she helped everybody,” a neighbor who declined to be identified told NBCPhiladelphia.

“She would always sit on the steps and smoke,” neighbor Lynette Brown told Philly.com. “She would always have her baby on her lap.” She then asked, “Was it a mental health issue that it could have been prevented, or was it substance abuse?”

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