Police: Mom Stabbed Kids to Death in Gas Station Bathroom

AUGUSTA, Ga. (AP, WRDW) -- A 22-year-old Georgia woman is facing murder charges for allegedly stabbing her two young children to death in a convenience store bathroom.An investigator says a worker at a Food Mart in Augusta called 911 Thursday after hearing a scream while Jeanette Michelle Hawes was in the bathroom with the boy and the girl. Sheriff's deputies knocked down the door and found Hawes on the floor, holding a steak knife and covered in blood.The one-year-old boy and three-year-old girl were pronounced dead at the hospital. Their mother is behind bars, charged with two counts of murder.Store clerk Amanda Thomas says Hawes was a regular customer. She says she heard the children crying in the rest room, and when things, quote, "didn't sound right," she tried to get in and couldn't.WRDW-TV reports that they interviewed Hawes just days before the killing. Apparently, her brother's pitbull was stabbed over the weekend. At the time, she told the station, "I just think, you know, it was wrong for her to actually do that because she could've went and got help or whatever, and you know, an animal is like a human being. That is like killing someone else so I just think it's not right, she didn't have to go that far."