NEW ORLEANS — A New Orleans man is in custody after his family says he stabbed his father and two sisters, leaving his father, Samuel Eweni, dead.

Family members didn’t want talk on camera Wednesday but confirmed to WWL Louisiana that Samuel Eweni was a computer sciences professor at Southern University at New Orleans.

Relatives say he and his two daughters were stabbed Tuesday night by Chukwuebuka Eweni, who is the son and brother of the victims. One of the victims was released from the hospital, the other is still being treated as of Wednesday afternoon and is expected to survive.

Family members say Eweni has long suffered from mental illness but has never been violent. They described Tuesday evening as an ordinary night at their home on Pebble Drive before Eweni grabbed a knife. They

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