A woman has been charged with two-counts of first-degree murder for killing her two children in Arizona.

Authorities said, the suspect, Yui Inoue, 40, drove to a police station about 7 a.m. on Saturday, May15, and told police officers she was hearing voices telling her to kill her children.

According to abc NEWS, Police said a 7-year-old boy and a 9-year-old girl, whose names weren’t immediately released, were found dead in the apartment.

 

A Tempe police spokesman, Sergeant Steven Carbajal said, the two bodies were under a blanket and boxes and “there were significant injuries to their bodies including numerous lacerations, incised wounds and some amputations, consistent with a violent attack and defensive wounds.”

He said Inoue had blood and lacerations on her body when she was detained and there were blood stains in her vehicle, adding that a meat cleaver with a 6-inch blade was found inside a bag with blood-stained clothing in her vehicle.

 

“There were several pieces of information/evidence that led detectives to believe that the cleaver was the weapon used during this incident” Carbajal said.

 

According to the Police, the suspect said she woke up around 4:30 a.m. Saturday, with blood on her hands and arms and the two children were dead and bloody near the doorway of the bedroom.

 

Inoue didn’t believe she had killed the children, but said she couldn’t remember and “woke up” to the situation after taking a bath.

 

Police said they had been called to the same apartment earlier Saturday morning because of a domestic dispute involving a husband and wife.

 

The suspect had threatened to stab her husband over an argument about money to move to Japan before she allegedly killed their two children with a meat cleaver in a suburban Phoenix apartment.

 

Police said Inoue’s husband confirmed he had left the apartment around 12:30 a.m. same day after arguing with her over money.

 

He said the children were asleep at the time of the argument and he didn’t have concerns about Inoue harming them.