PEMBROKE PINES – Pembroke Pines police say a mother of 5 children has died after she was stabbed during a domestic incident with her husband.
CBS News Miami spoke with one of the children’s godfathers who said he was in disbelief because “they were such a loving family.”
Police say it all started Thursday morning at a home on Lacosta Drive in the Grand Palms community off Pines Boulevard just west of I-75 when dispatchers received a 911 call about a man attacking his wife with a knife. The caller said the man had locked himself in the garage while 5 children were inside the home.
There was a standoff for hours and police even shouted for the man to come outside. Police barricaded a number of streets and the SWAT team moved in and the man was taken in to custody. The children were removed safely.
The mother was transported to a hospital but did not survive. The father was also transported with unspecified injuries.