A Seattle man has been charged with murder and attempted murder after he allegedly stabbed his 21-year-old stepdaughter 107 times as she protected her mother from his attack.
the incident took place earlier this month, KING reported. Police were called to the home in Seattle’s Beacon Hill neighborhood early in the morning on August 7. They wre met at the door by a a visibly upset woman who was bleeding from injuries to her face, according to court docs. She let the officers in, and they saw the woman’s husband, identified as Nghiep Kein Chau, coming down a staircase holding a large, bloody kitchen knife.
The officers told him to drop the knife, which he did. Police said Chau was covered in blood with fresh wounds on his right hand.
After placing Chau in handcuffs, they searched the house and found the “obviously” dead body of Angelina Tran, the woman’s daughter and Chau’s stepdaughter, in the kitchen.
The entire episode was captured on security cameras in the house, police said, which shows Chau punching his wife over and over in the kitchen while she tries to flee and calls for help.
Angelina Tran, apparently awakened by the commotion, enters the scene and gets between Chau and Linh Tran. Chau keeps punching his wife occasionally hitting his stepdaughter as well, KIRO reported. Linh Tran eventually wrested herself away from him, with her daughter holding Chau back to keep him from following.
The two fell to the floor, and Chau dragged his stepdaughter toward the kitchen counters, where he took a knife from a drawer and began stabbing her. He stabbed her repeatedly, more than 100 times, untill she fell unconscious, then continued to stab her after she was dead.
At one point, he changes clothes and retrieves a meat cleaver from the kitchen drawer and uses that to stab Angelina Tran, KING said.
“I. killed someone,” he reportedly told officers when he was taken into custody, KIRO said.
Chau’s bail was set at $5 million. He is scheduled to appear in court on Wednesday.
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[Featured image: KING screenshot]
