Horrifying moment mother and her daughter, 2 months, are both shot dead by cop who she charged at with knife

Disturbing assemblage camera footage caught the infinitesimal the parent of a two-month-old babe lunged astatine constabulary officers, prompting 1 to propulsion retired a gun.

Maria Pike, 34, and her daughter, Destinii Hope, sustained fatal injuries successful the police-involved shooting successful Independence, Missouri connected November 7.

The incidental reportedly began aft Pike got into a carnal altercation with Destinii's paternal grandmother, Talisa Coombs, amid concerns astir the baby's welfare, according to the Kansas City Star.

Coombs claimed Pike threw things astatine her and pulled her hair, and adjacent attempted to propulsion her down the stairs erstwhile she went to spell cheque connected her grandchild that day.

She past called the Children's Division of the Missouri Department for Social Services and the Independence police, with household members claiming they thought Pike would conscionable beryllium arrested and fixed the assistance she needed for postpartum depression, KCTV reports.

But assemblage camera footage released connected Wednesday showed Independence officers approaching Coombs, looking visibly distraught. and her husband, Brian Coombs, extracurricular a gathering astatine the Opal Springs Apartment astatine astir 1.45pm.

Police past determined that a home battle had taken place, and got support from the flat manager to participate Pike's apartment, wherever they recovered her clutching her babe wrong a closet.

Independence constabulary said they spoke with her for 11 minutes, only portion of which was shown successful the assemblage camera footage released Wednesday, successful which an serviceman asked her if she is OK oregon whether she had been hurt.

Pike lone responded by shaking and nodding her caput arsenic she rocked her baby, but did not accidental thing astatine immoderate constituent erstwhile she is connected camera successful the footage.

Independence constabulary said they past tried to person her to merchandise her daughter, but she refused.

Instead, officers say, she walked past the cops to beryllium connected a furniture adjacent to a nightstand, wherever determination was a ample knife.

The video adjacent shows Pike sitting connected the furniture with the baby's dad, Mitchell Holder, astatine the ft of the bed.

She could past beryllium seen picking up the weapon portion inactive clutching her babe and raising it implicit her caput earlier charging astatine an officer.

The footage released Wednesday stops earlier immoderate shots were fired and it is unclear however galore times the serviceman fired his gun.

All 3 of the officers who responded to the flat that time are present connected administrative permission amid a Police-Involved Incident Team probe into the shooting.

But household members are calling for justice.

'I privation accountability. I privation work connected the cop,' Nina Book, Pike's duplicate sister, told Fox 4 KC.

She said she and her sister would sermon increasing aged together.

'I ne'er thought a bull would instrumentality their lives,' Book said of the mother-of-three, whom she described arsenic 'very talented,' 'bright and intelligent' and a 'great' navigator who was 'proud of her Russian' heritage.

'She loved each children,' Book continued. 'It didn't substance if they were adjacent to her oregon not. She would airy up successful the country with different people's kids. She was bully with kids.'

In fact, Book said, during the past telephone telephone she had with her sister, 'she was truly excited to archer maine astir her baby.

'She told maine she believed God was giving her different accidental to person a child. She was going to thing and everything she could to not beryllium separated from her child.'

But Pike had been suffering from terrible postpartum depression, her household says, and successful the moments aft she gave commencement to Destinii connected August 22, she reportedly told infirmary unit that she was stateless and she 'felt similar hurting herself,' Talisa Coombs told the Star.

She said unit past tried to get Pike and her girl immoderate help, with idiosyncratic from the Children's Division asking Holder whether Pike and the babe could enactment there.

Coombs noted that she besides offered to fto Pike and Destinii enactment astatine her house, successful an upstairs bedroom, but she didn't privation to.

So the grandma said she yet told a Children's Division idiosyncratic she would spell to the flat and 'check up connected Destinii arsenic galore times arsenic I can.'

She claimed that successful her granddaughters conscionable two-and-a-half months of life, she visited her son's flat 'like 3 times a day.'

Coombs besides said the Children's Division ordered Pike and Holder - who is reportedly surviving with dissociative individuality upset and is collecting disablement checks - to spell to therapy and counseling.

But erstwhile asked whether they ever did, Coombs replied, 'not that I cognize of.'

The grandma went connected to assertion that societal services was called connected the mates again astatine the extremity of October, erstwhile Pike allegedly tried to smother her kid successful the woods.

She said Destinii was taken to a section hospital, and Pike checked herself into a intelligence infirmary for an valuation 3 days later.

When Destinii was aboriginal released from the hospital, Coombs said, a Children's Division worker brought her backmost to Holder's flat and told Holder and Coombs - who was astatine the flat astatine the clip - that Pike could nary longer beryllium near unsocial with the baby.

'They did not inquire maine to instrumentality Destinii astatine all,' Coombs recounted.

'When they gave that babe to Mitchell, they didn't springiness him nary papers astatine all, saying thing astir him having, you know, impermanent custody until a proceeding oregon nothing.

'And usually, they're expected to springiness you this paperwork saying, "This is the program close present and you request to travel this plan." They didn't springiness him 1 inch [of] a portion of insubstantial astatine all,' she claimed.

Coombs besides claimed that the mates would repeatedly disregard the Department of Social Services telephone calls and immoderate attempts to assistance them, adjacent cursing retired a societal services idiosyncratic astatine 1 point.

Social Services yet requested the mates and their kid be a gathering connected November 6 - conscionable 1 time earlier the fatal shooting, and Coombs said 1 of the societal services workers she had been communicating with told her to travel them to the gathering aft they missed a erstwhile one. 

When the mates past refused to reply calls from the section connected the time of the meeting, Brian said the Children's Division idiosyncratic told them helium and his woman would get custody of the baby.

'They said they were going to instrumentality that babe and springiness it to america to instrumentality attraction of until Mitchell and Maria got immoderate help,' helium told the Star.

The Children's Division worker besides reportedly asked the grandma to cheque connected the mates that time due to the fact that they weren't answering the phone.

'They wouldn't adjacent unfastened the doorway for me,' she said. 'I knocked connected the doorway and I kept calling retired the names. They didn't unfastened the door.'

A authorities idiosyncratic past responded to the home, but their knocks besides went unanswered, which led to constabulary officers getting the aforesaid attraction erstwhile they were called, she said.

The constabulary yet near that day, saying they could not enactment without a tribunal order. 

Coombs said the mates aboriginal called her and voiced their dismissal of authorities intervention.

'[Their] nonstop words they said to maine and my hubby [were] "I don't privation the CPS successful my beingness and I americium going to get escaped of them, if I person to telephone the constabulary connected them."

The pursuing day, conscionable hours earlier the police-involved shooting, Coombs said she received a telephone from the Children's Division employee, who asked her if she could cheque whether Destinii was inactive live - which is erstwhile Coombs said Pike attacked her.

'They should person done that themselves,' Brian argued. 'If they thought that babe was successful danger, that's their job. They should person went up there.'

'If they would person went implicit there, done their job, the result would person been different, I cognize it would have. It wouldn't person escalated to this.'