A Florida man stabbed his wife to dying earlier than slashing his own throat in front of their three kids in an obvious murder-suicide Monday evening over an argument about disciplining one of the kids, authorities mentioned.
Deputies responded to a house in Deltona round 6:15 p.m. after a 10-year-old boy ran to a neighbor’s home for assist, yelling that his stepdad stabbed his mom throughout a struggle, the Volusia County Sheriff’s Office mentioned Tuesday.
Deputies discovered the boy’s mom, recognized as 26-year-old Byanca Cruz, lifeless on the scene. The boy’s stepdad, 31-year-old Oscar Salazar, was discovered in grave situation with slice wounds to his neck. Salazar later died at a hospital.Â
“This is really, really a heartbreaking story,” Volusia County Sheriff Mike Chitwood mentioned throughout a press convention. “It is sickening on one end, again when you look you have three little kids involved here, a 10-year-old, a 5-year-old and a 2-year-old, who don’t have their mother anymore.”
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Oscar Salazar, 31, stabbed his spouse, 26-year-old Byanca Cruz, to dying Monday evening earlier than slashing his own throat in front of their three kids, authorities mentioned.
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None of the three kids had been harmed in the course of the incident. Salazar was the organic father of the 2 youthful kids, the sheriff mentioned.
Investigators decided the couple was having a struggle over how Salazar disciplined the 5-year-old baby when he started stabbing Cruz with a knife a number of instances, the sheriff mentioned.
Investigators mentioned the alleged homicide weapon was a knife, which was discovered on the scene.
(Volusia County Sheriff’s Office)
Cruz was “loaded with defensive wounds,” in keeping with Chitwood, who described the incident as “a fight for her life.”
Chitwood mentioned that Salazar had been utilizing the id of an uninvolved man who had his truck stolen in Texas a number of years in the past after one way or the other arriving in the U.S. from Mexico. Salazar’s immigration standing was unclear.
Volusia County Sheriff Mike Chitwood instructed reporters that Cruz was “loaded with defensive wounds” and that it was “a fight for her life.”
(Volusia County Sheriff’s Office)
Salazar was beforehand arrested in Orlando in 2016 for home abuse and was charged with battery in opposition to a pregnant girl. The sheriff’s workplace mentioned the pregnant girl was recognized as Cruz.
The 10-year-old boy was in the custody of his father whereas the opposite kids had been with their maternal grandmother.
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“The children will need a lot of love and support as they deal with this tragedy today and for the rest of their lives,” the sheriff wrote on Twitter. I’m simply so sorry for his or her ache.”