The military father allegedly stabbed by his teenage son was caught on security footage desperately running for his life and screaming that he “didn’t want to die” as his wife bled out from her wounds nearby.
Lance Baker, 46, a US Army Reserve Battalion Commander, was critically injured in the horrific attack late Sunday as his wife, Samantha Baker, 37, was killed at their Alabama home, allegedly by their 17-year-old son in a fight over him being disciplined, according to police.
The injured dad ran from their house in Daphne — but the teenager ran after him and stabbed him multiple times outside as the dad begged for help, traumatized neighbors recalled of the attack they said lasted up to seven minutes.
“And he’s going house to house, hand prints, there’s blood on them all,” next-door neighbor Shawn Scurry told Alabama.com of the horror caught in part on his security cameras.
“That was probably the hardest part — was pulling up my camera and listening to it and listening to the father yelling for help,” Shawn Scurry told Fox 10 TV.
“‘Please help me. I don’t want to die,’” the video caught him pleading, she said.
“And it just carried on down and it looks like he was trying to find an open door and I didn’t know where he was or where anybody was.”
Capt. Justin Correa of the Baldwin County Sheriff’s Office confirmed to reporters that Baker “was running to houses trying to get some help.”
The Baker parents, who had met while serving in the US Army Reserve, were found with multiple stab wounds outside of their home after they had attempted to flee the deadly attack, officials said.
The carnage was sparked after the trio argued over the child being disciplined, according to investigators.
The crime scene spanned roughly half a block in the private neighborhood of Belforest, located about 17 miles east of Mobile across the Mobile Bay.
Samantha Baker, a realtor, was pronounced dead as first responders flew her husband to a hospital in critical condition, according to the Baldwin County Sheriff’s Office.
The 26-year veteran was serving as Battalion Commander with the 1184th Deployment and Distribution Support Battalion in Mobile, Alabama.com reported.
The unidentified teenager was arrested and will be charged as an adult with one count of murder and one count of attempted murder.
The Baldwin County Sheriff’s Office did not immediately respond to the Post’s request for comment on Wednesday.
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