Shane Su­perville 

A 72-year-old woman was stabbed to death at her home in Brazil Vil­lage ear­ly Sat­ur­day morn­ing, in a mur­der that comes on the heels of an­oth­er sus­pect­ed do­mes­tic killing on Thurs­day night.

Po­lice said Eliz­a­beth Eti­enne called a rel­a­tive around 6.20 am and asked him to come to her home ur­gent­ly, but did not give de­tails. When the rel­a­tive ar­rived, he found Eti­enne’s 28-year-old son stand­ing out­side, cov­ered in blood.

In­side, Eti­enne was dis­cov­ered dead with stab wounds to her chest, arm, and neck. Of­fi­cers from the San Raphael Po­lice Sta­tion and a dis­trict med­ical of­fi­cer re­spond­ed and pro­nounced her dead at the scene. Her son was ar­rest­ed and is as­sist­ing Re­gion II Homi­cide In­ves­ti­ga­tors.

On Thurs­day night, 75-year-old Pe­ter Ban­field was found dead in the kitchen of his Flana­gin Town home, his body ly­ing in a pool of blood.

Ban­field’s sis­ter told po­lice she be­came con­cerned af­ter her son, Christo­pher Ban­field, who is men­tal­ly ill, showed up at her house act­ing sus­pi­cious­ly and she couldn’t reach her broth­er by phone. She alert­ed a rel­a­tive, who went to the house at LP #14 Mamoral Road and dis­cov­ered Ban­field's body with in­juries to his head and face.

Bras­so po­lice se­cured the scene, processed ev­i­dence and bagged the de­ceased’s hands for test­ing. In­ves­ti­ga­tors were told that around 7.30 p.m., Christo­pher ad­mit­ted to hav­ing an al­ter­ca­tion with his fa­ther and said he left him in the kitchen.

Po­lice ar­rest­ed Christo­pher Ban­field and took him to the Ch­agua­nas Health Fa­cil­i­ty, where he was treat­ed and dis­charged. He re­mains in cus­tody.