Tensions are building in a legal fight between maternal and paternal grandparents over who should get custody of an infant whose father, Kansas City Chiefs player Jovan Belcher, killed her mother before taking his own life.

<img>http://a57.foxnews.com/global.fncstatic.com/static/managed/img/U.S./0/371/JovanBelcher.jpg</img>Four-month-old Zoey Michelle Belcher is with her mother's family in Texas, according to a lawyer for Jovan Belcher's mother, Cheryl Shepherd
Shepherd, of West Babylon, N.Y., had moved in with Jovan Belcher and his girlfriend, Kasandra Perkins, about two weeks before the Dec. 1 shootings and was in the Kansas City home when her son fired several shots into Perkins' body.