A 45-year-old Seattle woman who was arrested Thursday evening allegedly stabbed her 4-year-old son to death in their home, according to court documents.
The woman, who The Seattle Times is not naming because she has not yet been charged, is being held in the King County Jail in lieu of $5 million bail.
A Seattle police detective wrote in a probable cause document that the father of the child called 911 Thursday afternoon from an apartment building in the Roosevelt neighborhood. The man told 911 that the woman was talking about suicide, and then he started screaming and said “she killed him,” according to the probable cause document.
Court papers say officers spoke with the man, who said he saw his 4-year-old son facedown in the bathtub, according to the document.
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