An 11-year-old boy made the horrific discovery that his parents were dead after he finished playing his video game.
The mother and father had killed each other while their youngster played video games using his earbuds in a separate room, according to law enforcement sources in Washington. Just after 6pm on October 31, the boy left his room and found his parents Juan Alvarado Saenz, 38, and Cecillia Robles Ochoa, 39, dead at their home in Longview, Washington State.
He called 911 for help after finding their bloodied bodies on the kitchen floor. Saenz had sustained multiple stab wounds to the chest, while the mother had been both stabbed and shot, with a gun and a knife both found at the scene.
Officers were unsure of the reason for the fight, or who had started it, but confirmed that the couple - who were married - had assaulted each other. They had discovered that the pair had made plans to separate before the incident, with detectives saying the pair "had relationship issues and intended to separate". They added that the firearm used in the incident "is confirmed to have been stolen from Alvarado Saenz's employer and was not discovered to be missing until after this incident".
It comes after a dad was charged following his daughter's tragic death in Arizona in which she was left in a sweltering car for more than three hours while he played video games on his Playstation. Christopher Scholtes, 37, a dad of three, insisted that he had only left his daughter, Parker Scholtes, in the vehicle for half an hour as he didn't want to disturb her sleep. The pair had just returned from a shopping trip.
The father reportedly left his sleeping toddler inside his 2023 Acura MDX for more than three hours, distracted by his video games inside the house. His wife, who works as a doctor, came home to find their daughter's lifeless body in the car, a horrifying discovery. Initially, he was charged with second-degree murder, but the indictment has since been updated and he was charged with first-degree murder on Thursday in Pima County, Arizona, according to KGUN. He also faces a count of child abuse.