MILTON-FREEWATER, Ore. — Oregon State Police say a man has been arrested after a stabbing left a 24-year-old woman dead and their two young children injured.
Milton-Freewater police found the couple, a 2-year-old boy and a 4-year-old girl suffering from stab wounds at a home in Milton-Freewater Thursday morning.
The woman, Maria Villegas, later died at Providence St. Mary Medical Center in Walla Walla. The boy was treated there.
State Police Capt. Bill Fugate says the girl was critically injured and was airlifted to a hospital in Spokane.