Law Enforcement: Son stabs mother to death, assaults father

HINDS COUNTY, Miss. (Mississippi News Now) – A man is accused of killing his mother and leaving his father with multiple stab wounds.

Dimitri Atkins II, 24, is in the Hinds County jail after allegedly stabbing and killing his 53-year-old mother.

Relatives say two brothers found Dimitri attacking their father with a knife and pulled him off.

He then reportedly left the house and was seen by first responders running in a t-shirt and underwear.

Major Pete Luke with the Hinds County Sheriff’s Department called the scene “horrific.”

The father was taken to the hospital with stab wounds to the neck and back and has since undergone surgery.

The incident happened in the Jackson suburb of Terry.

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