The Alabama mom allegedly butchered by her teen son had fought with him about her Facebook posts — where she once griped about his “attitude” — in the hours leading up to the gruesome attack that also left her husband fighting for his life, a neighbor exclusively revealed to The Post.
Samantha Baker, 37 — who was found dead from multiple stab wounds outside an Augustine Drive home in the private Belforest complex late Sunday — had tried to put her enraged 17-year-old son Brandon in his place earlier that day, according to the family’s next-door neighbor, Shawn Scurry.
Surveillance camera footage taken from Scurry’s home captured tense audio snippets of the argument that unfolded between the mother-son duo on their front porch around 2:30 p.m.
Scurry believed the pair was fighting about Samantha’s Facebook, where she posted about her two sons and her family life.
“He was asking about a comment, and she was saying it was just a story,” Scurry said. “She was saying … it wasn’t about him.”
The 51-year-old neighbor said she assumed, based on the “loud” exchange, that Samantha’s frequent posts about Brandon “was starting to hurt him.”
“She does talk kind of rude about the kids … and, you know, they are teenagers,” Scurry said.
The parents’ 16-year-old son was not home when his only brother allegedly charged at his parents with a kitchen knife, chasing them out of their home in the well-kempt complex, according to cops.
Chilling photos shared by Samantha on Facebook show her and Lance posing cheerily with their boys at high school football games, on a dock and inside a church.
“I love being a football mom. I don’t love the way they smell but hard work does stink!” the mom captioned one Oct. 6, 2025, post, along with a carousel of images showing her sons on the field and smiling after a game.
“Welcome to the Baker house…we laugh then holler then act like nothing happened until it’s time to holler and laugh again. It’s a s*** show over here. Enter at your own risk,” she captioned another post a week later.
But her posts sometimes hinted at less rosy family dynamics.
In one post for “National Sons’ Day” last year, the mom wrote that her Brandon was “a sweet guy” — but then noted “his mouth and attitude.”
“He’s a calm presence until he isn’t. He marches to the beat of his own drum,” Samantha continued in the caption.
And in a final birthday post dedicated to him, in September, she wrote, “You are an amazing person and yet at the same time you make my blood boil.”
More recently, in January, Samantha reposted a head-scratching meme that read: “Gentle parenting is for gentle children. My thugs will be handled accordingly.”
She shared a similar — now eerie meme — last May as well. It read: “Only parents with gentle children can gentle parent. The rest of us have to square up, and fight for our lives with the tiny bullies we made,” alongside her caption, “And I do square up! I don’t have gentle kids! They are feral.”
According to Scurry, Samantha ultimately put her foot down on Sunday, ending the argument.
“She [got] the final say and that was for him to go do his chore, which is to mow the lawn” — which he then did, she recalled.
“I always saw him mowing the lawn … so it didn’t seem like it was a problem for him to do it that day,” added Scurry, who said it was her first time hearing the family argue in roughly one year since she moved next door.
Brandon is now facing murder and attempted murder charges after Samantha and her husband, 46-year-old Lance Baker, were found with numerous stab wounds hours later at around 9 p.m., according to cops.
The bloodbath began after the parents got into a separate argument with their son over a disciplinary issue inside the house, Baldwin County Sheriff’s Office Captain Justin Correa told The Post Wednesday.
That’s when Brandon grabbed the knife and began wielding it at his mom and dad — stabbing them both repeatedly as they fled outside in a desperate bid to escape, according to cops and Scurry.
“You can hear both of them coming out of the house, and there’s like one scream from the mom,” said Scurry, whose Nest camera picked up audio of the sickening assault.
“Then the dad is arguing with the [son] — and when I say arguing, I mean like, ‘Why are you doing this?’ … He’s basically saying, ‘I don’t want to die. Please stop. No.’ And then he’s repeating, ‘Somebody help me, please, help me’ very loudly,” the shaken neighbor explained.
At one point, the audio captures the teen “telling [the dad] he was gonna kill him. Those words are in the video,” she added.
Lance’s spine-chilling screams could still be heard as he ran door to door down the block, leaving bloodied handprints on neighbors’ front doors while seeking help — with his son right on his tail, according to Scurry.
The teen eventually went back home and called 911, said authorities, who described the attack as an isolated domestic matter.
Cops arrested him without incident, according to Correa.
Samantha, a realtor, was pronounced dead at the scene.
Before the coroner arrived, “I saw her face down with stab wounds all over her back,” Scurry told The Post.
Lance, a US Army Reserve Battalion Commander with the 1184th Deployment and Distribution Support Battalion in Mobile, was flown to a local hospital in critical condition, according to cops.
As of Wednesday, the father of two was still in the hospital, where he’s in stable condition, Correa said.
The teen, who will be tried as an adult, is being held in jail on a $1 million bond after his arraignment on Monday.
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