Officials said four children in Memphis have been fatally stabbed and their mother has been taken into custody.
(FOX)- Shelby County Sheriff’s Office spokesman Earle Farrell said the stabbings occurred at an apartment complex Friday and deputies were at the scene.
The children were all under six years old, according to local reports. A call about the stabbings came through on 911 at around 1 p.m. Friday.
“What can you say?” said neighbor Sean Ahearn. “It’s just a terrible, terrible thing.”
Shelby County Sheriff Bill Oldham called the children’s deaths, “A tragic scene that has shocked us to our core.”
“I will never understand how anyone would do that,” Oldham said, according to The Commercial Appeal newspaper.
Oldham told reporters the investigation is in a very preliminary stage and investigators do not know if the mother had any mental health issues.