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Mom who drove van into ocean talked about demons hours before, family says
DAYTONA BEACH, Fla. —Daytona Beach Police interviewed the pregnant mother who drove her van with her three children inside into the ocean hours before the incident.
Family members told police that 32-year-old Ebony Wilkerson, of South Carolina, was acting strange about two hours before driving the van into the ocean.
"Her sister had called dispatch and told them that she had been talking about demons that day before she left the house," Police Chief Mike Chitwood said Wednesday.
Wilkerson's sister told police she didn't think her sister would harm her children, but that she was "acting odd."
Police pulled Wilkerson over to do a well being check, but Wilkerson did not act in a way that would have allowed law enforcement to take her into custody, and she did not meet Baker Act requirements.
Johnson said Wilkerson was afraid her ex-husband would find and hurt her and the children. Wilkerson told the officers that she was going to her "safe place" that she worked out with a domestic violence shelter.
Police said Wilkerson would not tell officers or family members the location of her "safe place" because she was worried her husband would find out from them.
Tim Tesseneer, of Rutherfordton, N.C., said he was one of the two men to first reach the minivan.
"The two in the back seat was crying, with their arms out saying 'Our mommy's trying to kill us, please help,'" said Tesseneer.
A bystander's video of the rescue shows a rescuer carrying two children away from the sinking van when the children tell them there was another child inside.
"The kids are like, 'No there's a baby. There's a baby,'" Tesseneer said. "She (the mother) wouldn't say a word. She didn't tell us nothing about a baby."
Mom who drove van into ocean talked about demons hours before, family says
DAYTONA BEACH, Fla. —Daytona Beach Police interviewed the pregnant mother who drove her van with her three children inside into the ocean hours before the incident.
Family members told police that 32-year-old Ebony Wilkerson, of South Carolina, was acting strange about two hours before driving the van into the ocean.
"Her sister had called dispatch and told them that she had been talking about demons that day before she left the house," Police Chief Mike Chitwood said Wednesday.
Wilkerson's sister told police she didn't think her sister would harm her children, but that she was "acting odd."
Police pulled Wilkerson over to do a well being check, but Wilkerson did not act in a way that would have allowed law enforcement to take her into custody, and she did not meet Baker Act requirements.
Johnson said Wilkerson was afraid her ex-husband would find and hurt her and the children. Wilkerson told the officers that she was going to her "safe place" that she worked out with a domestic violence shelter.
Police said Wilkerson would not tell officers or family members the location of her "safe place" because she was worried her husband would find out from them.
Tim Tesseneer, of Rutherfordton, N.C., said he was one of the two men to first reach the minivan.
"The two in the back seat was crying, with their arms out saying 'Our mommy's trying to kill us, please help,'" said Tesseneer.
A bystander's video of the rescue shows a rescuer carrying two children away from the sinking van when the children tell them there was another child inside.
"The kids are like, 'No there's a baby. There's a baby,'" Tesseneer said. "She (the mother) wouldn't say a word. She didn't tell us nothing about a baby."
