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The father of a woman who was brutally murdered in her bathtub has described how he 'collapsed in the front yard' after finding her body.
Mackenzie Hopkins, 24, was found dead on January 15 2022 in her home in Kansas City by her father, Shannon Hopkins, sister Hazel, and police.
Shannon told KMBC: 'I got a few feet inside her home, and [police] pulled me out. There was a lot of blood. I collapsed in the front yard.'
Jose E. Escalante-Corchado, 32, pleaded guilty to her murder and to first-degree assault on her then-four-year-old daughter Bella who was seriously injured in the attack but survived.
He was sentenced on Tuesday to 30 years in prison.
A day after Hopkins' body was found, her friend told police that she had told her boyfriend, Escalante-Corchado, that she was visiting Hopkins (pictured) the night before her murder, but said that it was a cover story so that she could go out
Mackenzie Hopkins, 24, was found bludgeoned to death in the bathtub at her Kanas City, Missouri home, and her daughter, 4, was found beaten unconscious in her bed nearly 12 hours after a 911 call was placed from the mom's phone
![Her father, Shannon Hopkins, said: 'I got a few feet inside her home, and [police] pulled me out. There was a lot of blood. I collapsed in the front yard.'](https://i.dailymail.co.uk/1s/2024/03/25/10/82839183-13233509-Her_father_Shannon_Hopkins_said_I_got_a_few_feet_inside_her_home-a-20_1711364024354.jpg)
Her father, Shannon Hopkins, said: 'I got a few feet inside her home, and [police] pulled me out. There was a lot of blood. I collapsed in the front yard.'
Jose Escalante-Corchado has been sentenced to 30 years in prison for the murder and assault
Hopkins was working as a nurse when she had Bella and her father said she 'came into her own' when she had a baby.
She was found beaten to death in her bath, submerged in water, with her daughter beaten unconscious in her bed.
Hopkins had called 911 12 hours earlier and police said people could be heard arguing on the phone but no one spoke.
But her body was not found until that evening, when her father requested police carry out a welfare check.
Her father said: 'It's impossible that this happened this way. She was caring. She was the most loving person.'
Hopkins' daughter, now six, is living in Puerto Rico with her father.
Bloody shoe prints found throughout the home were traced to a specific brand of cowboy boots owned by Escalante-Corchado and his van was seen in surveillance footage near her home around the time of her murder.
It emerged that Escalante-Corchado's then-girlfriend had used Hopkins as a 'cover story' so she could go on a night out.
DailyMail.com obtained a police report that states that around 6am on the Saturday morning, a 911 call - referred to as a disturbance in the documents - was placed from Hopkins' phone where the operator heard 'parties fighting'. Police would not confirm whether or not officers responded to the early morning call.
When officers arrived for the welfare check 12 hours later, Hopkins' father attempted to use a key to open the front door, and it swung open to a grisly scene.
'There were several spots on the floor inside the main floor of the residence where large amounts of
