08-30-2011, 11:21 AM
Mother kills daughters, hacks self with hatchetAug 28, 2011 9:18 AM
ASHEVILLE, NC (WYFF) - A gruesome discovery inside an Asheville home on Saturday led to double murder charges against a wife and mother.
Police said Naiyana Patel, 33, bludgeoned her two young daughters with a hatchet and then tried to kill herself.
Investigators say Patel used the ax to repeatedly strike herself in the head.
"It's just a terrible, terrible incident that occurred," Lt. Wallace Welch, interim chief of police, told WYFF.
Welch said the father of Jiya Patel, 7, and Piya Patel, 4, found his daughters dead and wife injured, after returning home from work.
Lalji Patel, who friends and relatives call Lalu, owns a convenience store a short distance from their home on Shannon Drive.
http://www.wmbfnews.com/story/15346866/p...-daughters
NC mom accused in hatchet deaths blames ghosts Aug 30, 2011 9:57 AM
ASHEVILLE, NC (AP) - A North Carolina woman accused of using a hatchet to kill her 8-year-old and 4-year-old daughters is blaming ghosts for their death.
The Asheville Citizen-Times reported Tuesday that a request for a search warrant includes a statement saying 33-year-old Naiyana Patel told a police officer that a ghost killed her children.
Patel is recovering from self-inflicted injuries at Mission Hospital in Asheville.
She's charged with first-degree murder in the slayings. Lt. Wally Welch says detectives have not had a chance to ask her about what happened.
Patel and her husband operated a convenience store and had lived in Asheville for about 20 years.
http://www.wect.com/story/15358192/nc-mo...-of-ghosts#
ASHEVILLE, NC (WYFF) - A gruesome discovery inside an Asheville home on Saturday led to double murder charges against a wife and mother.
Police said Naiyana Patel, 33, bludgeoned her two young daughters with a hatchet and then tried to kill herself.
Investigators say Patel used the ax to repeatedly strike herself in the head.
"It's just a terrible, terrible incident that occurred," Lt. Wallace Welch, interim chief of police, told WYFF.
Welch said the father of Jiya Patel, 7, and Piya Patel, 4, found his daughters dead and wife injured, after returning home from work.
Lalji Patel, who friends and relatives call Lalu, owns a convenience store a short distance from their home on Shannon Drive.
http://www.wmbfnews.com/story/15346866/p...-daughters
NC mom accused in hatchet deaths blames ghosts Aug 30, 2011 9:57 AM
ASHEVILLE, NC (AP) - A North Carolina woman accused of using a hatchet to kill her 8-year-old and 4-year-old daughters is blaming ghosts for their death.
The Asheville Citizen-Times reported Tuesday that a request for a search warrant includes a statement saying 33-year-old Naiyana Patel told a police officer that a ghost killed her children.
Patel is recovering from self-inflicted injuries at Mission Hospital in Asheville.
She's charged with first-degree murder in the slayings. Lt. Wally Welch says detectives have not had a chance to ask her about what happened.
Patel and her husband operated a convenience store and had lived in Asheville for about 20 years.
http://www.wect.com/story/15358192/nc-mo...-of-ghosts#