A 33-year-old father accused of decapitating his wife and stabbing his four young children to death in Sharourah attempted suicide while in custody.
The man is accused of murdering his wife and four children with a knife.
According to the Sharourah police chief Col. Hadi bin Ali Al-Dawes, the
father tried to kill himself by using a broken piece of plaster to cut a cut a vein in his thigh.
His attempt failed when guards quickly intervened and transferred him to a hospital in Sharourah for treatment. Reports from the hospital indicated that the wound was not serious. The prisoner was transferred once again to solitary confinement.
According to a source at the Bureau of Investigation, the interrogation of the accused man has made it clear that he does not suffer from any mental disorder. Rather, his behavior was driven by his state of poverty and need, as well as his inability to obtain a transfer order or obtain nationality.
The father first killed his son Fahad, 5, whom he watched leave the bathroom before suffocating him and stabbing him with a knife. He then moved to the child’s bedroom where his other son, Mohammed, was asleep. He did the same to him.
He next went to the family room where his wife was asleep with his daughter Nora. Without waking his wife, he moved Nora to the bedroom and killed her with a knife. He then returned to his sleeping wife and strangled her with a wire hanger before stabbing her in the neck.
According to investigators, the father then went to the home of his first wife where his 11-year-old son Abdullah was present. After his son refused to leave with him, the man returned after Maghreb and convinced the boy to go to the mosque to pray. After prayer, he brought him back to his house where he also suffocated him, amid resistance from the boy, and stabbed him with a knife. He moved the body to the bedroom where his siblings lay before turning himself in to the police.
Man accused of killing family attempts suicide
