A Texas mother has been arrested after her 11-year-old son called 911 and reported that she “believed he was the devil” and was in the process of “burning the family dogs,” authorities said.

Rusk County sheriff’s deputies responded to the home in Henderson, about 140 miles southeast of Dallas, around 1 p.m. on May 17, according to a While on the way to the scene, 911 dispatchers got a second call from a nearby address regarding a woman who had just arrived at their home with blood on her hands and who told them that her parents had been killed, the sheriff’s office said.

When deputies arrived at the home, their investigation led to the detainment of the 32-year-old mother, who had been driving her car with her four children, ages 1 to 11, inside, according to the sheriff’s office.

Deputies arrived within minutes and found Loredo in a vehicle with her children, visibly distressed and shouting for help. She admitted to killing the dogs in front of her children, and officers discovered the charred remains of the animals in a fire outside the home. Loredo exhibited signs of exposure to a wood fire, including stains on her hands