Last week, a husband and wife stabbed, shot and ultimately killed each other in a horrific fight inside their Washington state home while their 11-year-old son played video games in another room.
Officials said the boy was wearing earphones because his parents were “attacking each other” on Halloween.
He didn't know what happened until he discovered their bodies.
Investigators have not determined who was the primary perpetrator of the Oct. 31 fatal shooting in Longview, a city on the Washington side of the Columbia River about 80 miles east of Portland, Oregon. Not yet. The victims were identified as Juan Antonio Alvarado Saenz, 38, and Cecilia Robles Ochoa, 39.
Police said Alvarado Saenz died from multiple stab wounds to the chest, and Robles Ochoa was stabbed and shot. The Cowlitz County Sheriff's Office said:.
The boy found his parents covered in blood on the kitchen floor and called 911.
He was the only one home at the time.
Paramedics tried but were unable to revive the couple.
Detectives later learned that Alvarado Saenz and Robles Ochoa “had problems in their relationship and intended to separate,” the sheriff's office said.
A knife and a gun were recovered from the scene.
The sheriff's office said the firearm used in the incident was “confirmed to have been stolen from Alvarado Saenz's employer and was not discovered missing until after this incident.”
