ANDERSON COUNTY, Texas — An East Texas mother is mourning and remembering her young daughter whose life was cut short in what she called an act of "pure evil."

Kia-Patrick Roushelle Walker, 20, was found dead Aug. 7 in a parking lot in the Tennessee Colony area in Anderson County. Her ex-boyfriend, Cyrus Johnson, 23, was charged with murder in connection with her death, the Anderson County Sheriff's Office said.

Walker's family says Johnson showed no clear warning signs until it was too late.

"If this would have been a true accident, it may have been different, but it was just pure evil," Walker's mother June Merchant said. "I get a call at 1 o'clock in the evening, and my daughter said, 'You need to leave work now.' I knew something was serious, but I didn't know what it was."

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