Over the weekend, a six-year-old boy was fatally slashed in the throat while his 12-year-old sister was also slashed in the throat in their Camden, NJ home. Yesterday, authorities announced they had arrested a suspect—and said that he had been smoking "wet," a combination of PCP and marijuana.
After 2 a.m. on Sunday, the 12-year-old girl, Amber, ran from her home after being attacked. She found a neighbor, Nakyta McCray, who called 911, told ABC News, "I saw her standing there with her throat cut open and barely breathing. The older sister kept crying that the other two little kids were in the house. So I went down there to try to get the two little kids, but I saw a whole bunch of blood, called for an officer and he walked in the house and said there was another victim."
Little Dominick Andujor was dead; the pair, along with a 9-year-old sibling, were being watched by their 14-year-old sister, because their mother was reportedly recovering in a hospital. Police soon found Osvaldo Rivera, "hiding between a mattress and a bedroom wall Sunday afternoon inside a Camden apartment," and the Camden County Prosecutor's Office said "With him were bloodstained sneakers that matched bloody footprints found at the crime scene."
Authorities believe that Rivera, 31, had been smoking PCP laced with marijuana. Two weeks ago, another Camden resident, Chevonne Thomas, 33, decapitated her 2-year-old son. According to CBS, the 33-year-old woman had called 911 and when police arrived, they found her son Zharee's headless body. Thomas was still on the phone with 911 and refused to leave a room—and then fatally stabbed herself. Police, who later found the boy's head in the freezer, say Thomas had been smoking marijuana laced with PCP before the killing. "Wet" can apparently cause aggression and hallucinations.
