NJ man charged with stabbing his parents to death at their home

A New Jersey man has been charged with stabbing each of his dad and mom to dying contained in the household’s dwelling, prosecutors stated.

New Jersey State Police troopers responded to a residence at Tipton Drive in Hopewell for a wellness verify round 7:30 a.m. Tuesday morning and located Brenda L. Williams and Billy C. Williams Jr., each of their 60s, lifeless from obvious stab wounds, in response to the Cumberland County Prosecutor’s Workplace.

Their son, 34-year-old Craig Williams, was later arrested and charged with two counts every of first-degree homicide, second-degree desecration of human stays, and two counts of third- and fourth-degree weapons possession costs. 

He was moreover charged with obstruction, hindering apprehension, and tampering with proof.

Williams and his dad and mom appeared to have lived collectively on the similar dwelling, NJ.com reported.

In line with an affidavit of possible trigger obtained by the outlet, a relative of the dad and mom requested a well-being verify on the dwelling after neither responded to a number of calls over the weekend and Billy Williams didn’t present as much as work on Monday morning.

When troopers arrived at their dwelling, Craig Williams answered the door however stated that his dad and mom weren’t dwelling and refused to allow them to inside, in response to the affidavit.

The troopers continued and he lastly allow them to inside. Williams led them to his dad and mom’ bed room the place they discovered the deceased victims, the doc stated.

Williams, who had blood stains on his clothes, instructed the troopers that his dad and mom had been inside for 2 days.

A number of knives and an axe had been seized by police as proof, the affidavit says.

Troopers had responded to twenty separate incidents on the dwelling in simply the final two years, together with home violence, harassment, assaults and verbal arguments, investigators realized.

“All incidents concerned Craig Williams, who was arrested quite a few instances for assaulting each decedents,” State Police Investigator J.P. McKay wrote within the affidavit.

Craig Williams was booked on the Cumberland County Jail, data present. Prosecutors plan to request he stay behind bars till his trial, officers instructed NJ.com.