her mom; father suspected after found with knife to his neck 'Mommy is sick.
'Mommy is sick. Mommy is asleep': Girl, 5, found on side of road outside Mass. home following murder of her mom; father suspected after found with knife to his neck
"Mommy is sick. Mommy is asleep."
Those were the heartbreaking words of a 5-year-old girl found on the side of the road in a Massachusetts town after her mother had been murdered, possibly by her father.
Kelly Sugarman, 36, was found dead on a bedroom floor in their Grafton home on Wednesday, and her injured husband Michael was found in a different room "holding the knife to his neck," Worcester District Attorney Joseph Early told MassLive.
Investigators believe his wounds were self-inflicted. He was taken to a nearby hospital, but his condition wasn't released.
Authorities had been led to the home after finding their young daughter walking in her pajamas early Wednesday morning, according to Early.
When police officers found her, the girl told them "mommy is sick. Mommy is asleep."
Michael Sugarman allegedly killed his wife Kelly before trying to take his own life. Their daughter was found by cops on the street.
"We don't know at this point, we don't know what the girl did see, what she didn't see," Early told MassLive.
Early would not say how Kelly Sugarman died, but results of an autopsy may shed some light. Murder charges against her 42-year-old husband are expected.
The young girl was taken to a hospital for evaluation and is now in state custody.
"The only thing that went through my mind all day and still goes through my mind is what she saw and what she might have been running from. It's horrible,” neighbor Jackie Costello told Fox 25.
An unidentified neighbor said the family, who lived in Grafton for approximately nine years, "kept to themselves."
"They never said 'hi,'" the neighbor told CBS in Boston. "They're new neighbors. You just never know."