Fort Worth man said voices told him to do bad things in 1998. Now he’s charged with murder

Christopher Phillips started seeing psychiatrists at the age of 9 because he was hearing voices and seeing things.

As a child, Phillips did not set fires, but he killed cats, dogs, frogs and other animals, and then sliced them up, according to court documents. At 18, he was arrested for drawing a gun on his sister and threatening her, the documents say.

On Monday, the 41-year-old Phillips was arrested on a murder charge, accused of stabbing a man to death in a west Fort Worth neighborhood last week and then calling 911 to report it.

Fort Worth police did not release any information on a motive for the stabbing, and an arrest warrant affidavit wasn’t available as of Thursday.

Phillips was in the Tarrant County Jail on Thursday with bond set at $75,000 on the murder charge.

Killed in the attack was 37-year-old Jasen R. Crenshaw, of Fort Worth. He died from a stab wound to his abdomen.

Fort Worth police responded to the 911 call just after 2 a.m. on Sept. 9 in the 6300 block of Darwood Avenue.