An old woman was stabbed to death by her 81-year-old husband inside their home in Marick Subdivision, Barangay Sto. Domingo, Cainta, Rizal early Friday morning, Dec. 12.
According to the Cainta Municipal Police, the victim's son was woken up by his mother's screams for help at the ground floor of their house, where she and the suspect, identified as Jaime, were sleeping.
He subsequently saw his mother with a knife wound in her neck and his father holding a kitchen knife used in the stabbing.
Jaime was immediately placed under police custody and is now facing parricide charges filed before the Office of the Provincial Prosecutor of Rizal.
The police are still investigating the incident.