A Missouri man has been charged with fatally stabbing his ex-girlfriend in his parents’ basement, the St Louis Post-Dispatch reports.
Police responding to a 911 call on Tuesday found Crystal McCandless, 33, with multiple stab wounds and Christopher D. Faris, 38, kneeling beside her, according to court documents. Next to Faris, they found a boxcutter and a knife.
According to a witness report, the pair had been in the basement before Faris came upstairs and said, “Call 911, we’re dying.”
Jessica McCandless, Crystal’s sister, told the Post-Dispatch that Faris and her sister were no longer together, but they were the parents of 1-year-old twins, a boy and a girl. Additionally, Crystal McCandless had two other daughters, 10 and 13, from a previous relationship.