A woman killed her 3-year-old son and husband before failing to kill herself at a popular Pennsylvania water park, in what authorities on Tuesday called an “ isolated domestic tragedy.”
\n\nOfficers rushed to the Great Wolf Lodge at 3:13 p.m. on Monday after a “distressed female” in Room 2030 “advised the dispatcher that she needed help committing suicide,” according to a Poconos Township Police Department statement.
\n\nThat caller, 27-year-old Towanda resident Metallica Rose Harrison, “was observed with wounds to her person” when officers arrived, the statement continued.
\n\nOfficers found the bodies of a man and a 3-year-old boy in the room, and officers immediately “began investigating the deaths as homicides,” police said.
\n\nThe woman’s husband, Charles Harrison, and the child had both been stabbed in the chest, according to a criminal complaint cited by NBC affiliate WGAL.
\n\nThe suspect allegedly told a dispatcher where to find the bodies in their room.
\n\n“My husband and son are already gone in the bed in the living room,” the affidavit quoted the wife saying. “They’re already gone. I’m sorry.”
\n\nHarrison was booked on suspicion of two counts of homicide.
\n\n“This case is an isolated domestic tragedy and there is no threat to the…
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