TEMPE, Ariz.: Two children were found dead Saturday morning in a suburban Phoenix apartment after a woman flagged down a police officer and said she was hearing voices telling her to kill her children, police said.
Officers went to her apartment and found a 9-year-old girl and a 7-year-old boy dead with obvious signs of physical trauma,” Tempe Police spokesman Sgt. Steven Carbajal said.
The mother who flagged down a Tempe officer at about 7 a.m. near one a station has been detained and detectives are interviewing her, Carbajal said in a statement. No identities have been released.
Police said they had been called to the same apartment earlier Saturday morning because of a domestic dispute involving a husband and wife. Carbajal said the couple was separated and no one was arrested. The children were safe in bed at the time.
Carbajal called it a tragic incident” and said the officers who responded to the call are receiving counseling.
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