Arizona Mother Kills Two Children With Meat Cleaver While Hearing Voices, Police Say
On 5/17/21 at 3:35 AM EDT
A woman in Arizona is accused of killing her two young children with a meat cleaver after having an argument with her husband about moving to Japan, police said.
Tempe Police have charged 40-year-old Yui Inoue with two counts of first-degree murder after officers found the bodies of the children at an apartment in the 4100 block of S. Mill Avenue on Saturday.
Speaking at a press conference later that day, Tempe Police spokesman Sgt. Steven Carbajal told reporters that Inoue had driven to a nearby police station around 7 a.m. and flagged one of their officers, saying she had been hearing voices, telling her to kill her kids.
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Tempe Police officials say officers found a 9-year-old girl and 7-year-old boy dead inside an apartment near Mill and Southern Avenues. The suspect has been identified as a 40-year-old woman.
TEMPE, Ariz. - A 9-year-old girl and 7-year-old boy have been found dead after a woman told a Tempe police officer she was hearing voices telling her to kill her kids, officials said Saturday morning.
Police say the woman had flagged down the officer at a police station on Apache and McClintock Drive, and officers later went to her apartment near Mill and Southern to investigate.
The children were found dead in their family s apartment Saturday morning, underneath a blanket. Author: Erica Stapleton Updated: 10:15 PM MST May 16, 2021
TEMPE, Ariz.
Editor s Note: Details in this story are graphic.
Tempe police are starting to piece together what happened before two kids were found dead in their family s apartment.
Police discovered the bodies of Mia Inoue, 9, and Kai Inoue, 7, on Saturday morning at a unit at The Tides at South Tempe apartment complex near U.S. 60 and Mill Avenue.
Their mother, Yui Inoue, is facing two first-degree murder charges, according to police. It s disturbing, said Kevin Hochstatter. It makes me kind of queasy to go to sleep at night.
An Arizona mother is facing first-degree murder charges after her two children were found violently killed at her Tempe, Arizona home Saturday morning.