A Mother's Agony

Fighting back tears and struggling to keep her composure, Allyn Bullard talked to us about her nightmare.

"I never in my life would have thought that he'd take her life," says Bullard. "I can't imagine it. It's so hard."

Bullard's daughter, Quintessa Pickens, was murdered inside her Foley apartment. Bullard and her husband were the ones who found Picken's body.

"We saw a body on the floor, covered up and I started crying and he said baby, don't come in here, don't come in here," says Bullard. "She was laying sideways from her bedroom to the kitchen and had the rope or something I guess where he'd strangled her with."

Quintessa Pickens' boyfriend, Jontez Holt, has been charged with murder. Police say Holt used a jump rope to strangle her.

"Why? Why take her life with her two babies and her family that loves her?"

Bullard says she'll raise her grand-children, but says she hasn't told them their mother is dead.

The family needs your help with funeral expenses. An account called the Quintessa Pickens Memorial Fund has been set up at Bryant Bank in Foley.