LAS VEGAS (AP) - The Latest on the death of a 2-year-old child found with an injured woman in a Las Vegas home (all times local):
3:30 p.m.
Police in Las Vegas say a 21-year-old mother described by family members as being depressed since giving birth stabbed her 2-year-old son to death and wounded herself with a knife.
Lt. Ray Spencer told reporters the child was found dead on a bed Monday by patrol officers after the boy’s father and the woman’s cousin broke through a door to a bedroom where the woman refused to come out.
The woman was conscious when police arrived and was hospitalized in serious but stable condition at Sunrise Hospital & Medical Center with what Spencer called apparently self-inflicted stab wounds.
Her name wasn’t immediately made public.
Spencer said the cousin also lived in the house in a neighborhood south of McCarran International Airport.
She told police she hadn’t seen the child since Sunday and was talking to the woman through the door until about 15 minutes before police arrived.
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1:35 p.m.
Police in Las Vegas say a 2-year-old was found dead in a bloody home with a woman suffering from stab wounds in what investigators believe was a murder and attempted suicide.
Officer Larry Hadfield says patrol officers made the discovery about 8 a.m. Monday after being called to a home in a neighborhood several miles south of McCarran International Airport.
The woman was hospitalized at Sunrise Hospital & Medical Center. Her condition and relationship to the child were not immediately known.
Hadfield says homicide detectives are handling the case.
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9:20 a.m.
Authorities say a 2-year-old child has been found dead inside a Las Vegas home.
Las Vegas police say they were called to a residence Monday shortly before 8 a.m. about reports of a woman locked in a room with a small child.
Police spokeswoman Laura Meltzer says responding officers found someone had already broken a door down.
The child was found with an injury and pronounced dead at the scene.
A woman was also found and taken to a hospital with an injury. Her condition or her relationship to the child were not immediately known.
Meltzer did not release any other details.
But police are trying to determine if the incident was an attempted murder-suicide.
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