Mother of two fatally stabbed in Chester; 3-year-old present
Chester Police responding to a report of a "domestic situation" found "copious amounts of blood" and a child sitting on a bed crying. In the kitchen area was his mother's stabbed body.
Bloody footprints were the first sign something was wrong.
Police in the City of Chester saw them just after 10:30 p.m. Friday, when they arrived at the apartment building on the 600 block of West Ninth Street, responding to the report of a "domestic situation" with a possible stabbing, police said.
As officers climbed to the second floor, they saw bloody footprints on the steps along with blood on the walls, according to a statement issued Saturday morning by Chief James Chubb.
As officers got closer to the second-floor apartment where they were headed, they "could hear a child screaming and crying," according to Chubb's statement. Once inside the apartment, "they observed copious amounts of blood," a child sitting on a bed crying, and his mother dead on the floor in the kitchen, apparently stabbed, the statement said.
Police said the apartment "appeared to be in disarray due to a possible struggle."
The woman's name was not released. In an email later Saturday, Chubb said the child was the woman's 3-year-old son. Her other child, a 6-year-old daughter, had been with a neighbor downstairs. Both children are now in the custody of their maternal grandmother, Chubb said.
A person was in custody Saturday afternoon, with charges expected to be filed, he said. Chubb said that arraignment was likely on Sunday.
Anyone with information regarding the case is urged to contact Chester Detective Jamison Rogers at 610-447-2263 or jrogers289@chesterpolice.org, or Delaware County Detective Timothy Deery at 610-891-8030.