10 Year Old Girl Survives Botched Murder/Suicide

"CONCORD. CA — A 10-year-old girl was slashed and wounded by her mother, who then killed herself, in what police are describing as an attempted murder-suicide this morning.

"According to police, the girl was awaken around 7:40 a.m. when her 39-year-old mother started attacking her with a knife, cutting her in the neck. The child struggled free and ran away to call 911. She was later taken to the hospital where she is in serious but stable condition.

"Sometime between the attack and when police arrived a short time later, the mother turned the knife on herself, investigators say. Officers found her dead inside a bedroom at their home in the 1400 block of Parkglen Court.

"No one else was home at the time of the attack — the mother's husband and father of the wounded girl was at work.

"Police are still investigating what motivated the woman to attack her daughter, said Investigations Lt. Jim Lardieri. He declined to speak about the background of the woman, whose name has not been released."

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