Four children stabbed to death, mother being questioned

MEMPHIS, Tenn. (AP) – The mother of four young children who were stabbed to death in a gated apartment complex in Tennessee is being held for questioning, but authorities have not charged her with a crime.

The deaths of the children on Friday saddened and dismayed neighbors and county officials, as authorities try to piece together what happened in the apartment located near a verdant golf course in a typically quiet neighborhood in suburban Memphis.

Deputies were called to the complex in unincorporated Shelby County shortly before 1 p.m. Friday. Officials have not released the ages of the children, but sheriff’s office spokesman Earle Farrell said deputies responding to the scene called them “babies.”

Shelby County Sheriff Bill Oldham called the killings an “egregious act of evil,” though he did not specifically allege that the mother had stabbed the children.

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