NBC10’s Siobhan McGirl reports on a deadly stabbing inside a house along Philadelphia’s Cobbs Creek Parkway early Wednesday morning.
Philadelphia police charged a 15-year-old girl with murder after she called police to her rowhome to report that her grandmother -- her legal guardian -- was stabbed to death.
Officers arrived to the house along Cobbs Creek Parkway, near Spruce Street, in the Cobbs Creek section of the city around 2 a.m. Wednesday, Philadelphia Police Capt. Anthony Ganard said.
A 911 call was made by the girl, Ganard said. She couldn't open the door when officers arrived, so they instead had to climb through a window that the girl opened.
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The officers then found a 67-year-old woman stabbed in the abdomen an upstairs bedroom, police said. Medics pronounced the woman dead.
"It sounds like it was a domestic disturbance that turned into a stabbing," Ganard said.
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Police said no one else beside the girl and woman were home when they arrived. Investigators recovered a knife upstairs in the house, Ganard said.
Investigators took the girl into custody and transferred her to homicide detectives.
She was later charged with murder, police said. NBC10 is not naming the girl since she is a minor and no adult court filings could be found.
Philadelphia's homicide rate is down so far in 2024, something that city leaders say is encouraging. However, despite a 35% drop, at least 87 people have been killed so far this year, according to police data.
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