Husband Finds Wife And Child Found Slain In SFV Home

VAN NUYS, CA — A San Fernando Valley man told police he arrived home to find his wife and teenage son slain the day after Christmas. Los Angeles police are investigating their deaths as a homicide, and no arrests have been made in case.

The Van Nuys man told police he arrived home at about 11 p.m. Wednesday night to find the bodies of his 13-year-old son and his wife, a woman in her 40s, said Officer Norma Eisenman of the Los Angeles Police Department's Media Relations Section. They were found in a home in the 13800 block of Oxnard Street in the Valley Glen neighborhood, she added.

"There is trauma," Eisenman said. "It is being investigated as a homicide."

Police have released no suspect information. The father is cooperating with police. Names have not yet been released.

City News Service and Patch Staffer Paige Austin contributed to this report. Photo: Shutterstock