A married couple stabbed, shot, and eventually killed each other last week in a gruesome fight inside their Washington State home, all while their 11-year-old son played video games in another room.
The boy was wearing earbuds as his parents were “assaulting each other” on Halloween, officials said.
He didn’t realize what happened until he found their bodies.
Investigators are not able to say who was the primary aggressor in the Oct. 31 deaths in Longview, a city on the Washington side of the Columbia River about 50 miles east of Portland, Oregon.
The victims were identified as Juan Antonio Alvarado Saenz, 38, and Cecilia Robles Ochoa, 39.
Alvarado Saenz died from multiple stab wounds to the chest, police said, while Robles Ochoa was stabbed and shot, the Cowlitz County Sheriff’s Office said.
The boy called 911 after finding his bloodied parents on the kitchen floor.
He was the only other person in the home at the time.
EMTs tried but couldn’t revive the couple.
Detectives have since learned Alvarado Saenz and Robles Ochoa “had relationship issues and intended to separate,” the sheriff’s office said.
One knife and a gun were recovered from the scene.
The sheriff said the firearm used in the incident “is confirmed to have been stolen from Alvarado Saenz’s employer and was not discovered to be missing until after this incident.”
