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U.S. NEWSFriday 3 June 2016
Phoenix police: Stabbed boys’ bodies partially dismemberedÂ
RYAN VAN VELZER rage but then locked him Law enforcement officials stand outside a home, Thursday, June 2, 2016 in Phoenix where three
PAUL DAVENPORT out of the house and then boys were killed during a several hour period Wednesday night. The boy’s mother was hospital-
Associated Press locked herself in a bed- ized in critical condition with self-inflicted stab wounds according to Phoenix police.
PHOENIX (AP) — A Phoenix room once he forced his
woman stabbed her three way into the home, Crump (AP Photo/Matt York)
young sons to death and said.
put their partially dismem- She then came out all When the brother returned Crump said, referring to the feel good in this neighbor-
bered bodies in a closet bloody, having stabbed home from work, his sister killings. hood,†said Frank Segura,
before she tried to kill her- herself, and she tried to met him in the garage and The woman and her chil- who lives across the street.
self at their home, police drown herself in a bathtub talked about religion and dren live with her brother “It’s heartbreaking. They’re
said Thursday. while the brother was get- the meaning of life, which and the siblings’ mother, just nice kids.â€
Officers found the dead ting towels for her bleed- he told police was a recent Crump said. Next-door neighbor Shelley
boys — ages 2 months old ing, the sergeant said. subject of interest to her, he “There’s no father in the Severns said her children
and 5 and 8 years old — That’s when the brother said. picture.†played with the older boys,
in a closet full of miscella- called 911 and police re- The brother told police he Residents said the neigh- whom she called “cute lit-
neous items. The youngest sponded. didn’t understand why his borhood of townhomes is tle things.â€
boy’s body was in a case After dealing with the bad- sister recently had started quiet, and the older boys “I’m still processing all of
of some kind in the closet, ly injured woman, officers talking about religion, and frequently rode bicycles this. It’s very tragic because
Sgt. Trent Crump said. didn’t discover the boys’ family members “don’t outside. you don’t know why this
No identities were released. bodies until they started know what set this off,†“Kids are supposed to happen,†Severns said.q
“Detectives have informed searching the whole home,
me that it appears the chil- they said.
dren at this point were like- As she was being taken to
ly stabbed to death and the hospital, the woman
parts of their bodies were told police her sons were
dismembered,†Crump staying with a baby sitter,
said. and the brother told police
He did not elaborate on the boys did regularly stay
the dismemberment but with that person, Crump
earlier said it was an “abso- said.
lutely horrific scene.†The mother was hospital-
The woman’s brother ized in critical condition
called 911 early Thursday with neck and abdomen
after his sister stabbed her- wounds but is expected to
self some time after he re- survive, police said.
turned from work to their “She will be in the hospital
northwest Phoenix home for some time with some
late Wednesday, police very serious self-inflicted in-
said. juries,†Crump said. “It’s a
The woman initially spoke murder investigation at this
with her brother in the ga- point.â€
Suspect arrested in fatal shooting of 2 college studentsÂ
M. KUNZELMAN exchange of gunfire that old Ernest Bernard Felton, Police have described Ben- Marks on a bullet taken
Associated Press killed 19-year-old students of Miami — was arrested ton and January as “inno- from Henderson’s body in-
BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) — Lashuntae Benton and An- within hours of the shooting cent bystanders†caught in dicate he was shot by the
A man accused of start- nette January at an off- on a charge of attempted the crossfire. same type of weapon that
ing a shootout that killed campus party in April, a second-degree murder in A police report dated Thurs- fired the bullets that killed
two Southern University police report says. Henderson’s shooting. Fel- day said investigators don’t the women, the report
students was arrested on Henderson, who was ton, a former Southern foot- believe Henderson fired the adds.
murder charges Thursday, wounded in the April 10 ball player, hasn’t been shots that killed the two stu- Benton, a sophomore from
although police don’t be- shootout, was a student at charged in the women’s dents. Lake Charles, Louisiana,
lieve he fired the deadly Southern until the spring of deaths, Marks on the bullets recov- was a student athletic train-
shots. 2014. He was jailed on two but police said in a written ered from the women’s er at the Baton Rouge col-
Brandon Christopher Hen- counts of second-degree statement Thursday that bodies didn’t match the lege. January, a freshman
derson, 25, of Baton Rouge murder and one count of the case remains under in- type of handgun that Hen- from Gary, Indiana, was on
told investigators that he illegal use of a weapon. vestigation with “additional derson “conceded†firing, Southern’s track and field
fired the initial shots in the Another suspect — 22-year- pending arrests.†according to the report. team.q
