A Carrollton mother is in custody accused of stabbing her husband and intentionally driving her car into a pond with her three children inside. Everyone survived but one of the children is in critical condition.
A Carrollton, Tex., woman is charged with aggravated assault with a deadly weapon after being accused of stabbing her husband and then driving a vehicle with three children inside into a Lewisville retention pond.
Detectives arrested Wei Fen Ong on Friday, charging her with three counts of aggravated assault with a deadly weapon and one count of aggravated assault with a deadly weapon causing serious bodily injury.
Carrollton Police said they were called to a home at about 7:45 a.m. where a man said his wife stabbed him with a knife before leaving the home. Carrollton Fire-Rescue took the man to the hospital where he is receiving treatment and is expected to survive.
Carrollton Police said a short time later, police in the neighboring town of Lewisville got another 911 call where someone reported a woman and three children ages 12, 9, and 8, were in a car that had been driven into a nearby retention pond.
Lewisville Police said by the time they arrived on scene, the oldest child was able to free himself.
They said the first officer on scene grabbed another child, who was unconscious, and successfully performed CPR to revive the child.
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They said Lewisville Fire then arrived on scene and rescued a third child from the car, who was also unconscious and was resuscitated in the ambulance on the way to the hospital.
The two youngest children who had to be revived were taken to Children's Legacy in Plano, according to police.
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Lewisville Police said the mother was conscious and she and the oldest child were examined at Medical City in Lewisville.
Police said two of the children are in stable condition and a third is in critical condition. It's not been confirmed which child is in critical condition.
“I saw what I thought was an accident but it turned out, I guess, a little bit more than an accident," said Wallace Rose, who was walking through the area after fishing nearby. “I’m not really religious but if I was, I’d pray for the family. I hope that they are okay.”
Police said they later confirmed the woman pulled from the vehicle in the pond was the wife of the man who had been stabbed. Carrollton Police said the woman was taken into police custody and will face criminal charges.
Police said family members are cooperating in the ongoing investigation.
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