A Pennsylvania woman is alleged to have killed her husband and three-year-old son at a resort in the Poconos Mountains before dialling 911, seeking help to attempt suicide. Officers rushed to the crime scene around 3:13 pm local time on Monday (Oct 12) after receiving a call from her.
The woman asked police for help to die as she could not “find the vein in her neck to stab”.
Woman stabs husband and three-year-old son fatally at Great Wolf Lodge, then calls police seeking suicide help.
The female, identified as Metallica Rose Harrison of Towanda, Pennsylvania, advised the dispatcher that she needed help committing suicide,” read the statement from the Pocono Township Police Department. “While checking the room for the rest of Harrison’s family, Officers located a deceased adult male and a three-year-old male child. The woman, identified as 27-year-old Metallica Rose Harrison of Towanda, was on a family getaway and staying at the Great Wolf Lodge, where she stabbed her husband, Charles Harrison, and toddler, identified only by the initials TH. “Officers from the Pocono Township Police Department were dispatched to the Great Wolf Lodge, Scotrun, Pocono Township, room 2030 for a report of a distressed female.
Harrison allegedly told the police that she “wanted to be with her husband and son,” who were both found with fatal stab wounds to their chests. Investigators found a butcher’s knife and a small knife on the premises, according to a report in New York Post. Harrison was hospitalised, and Officers began investigating the deaths as homicides,” the police said. Though she refused to talk to the police officers during the arrest, saying she was “suicidal, not stupid,” Harrison went on a bizarre rant to the EMS as they whisked her away in the ambulance.
