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LOS ANGELES (AP) - A 43-year-old mother stabbed her 4-year-old son to death Saturday with a kitchen knife before fatally slitting her own wrists, police said.

The boy and his mother were discovered in the morning at a home in the Garvanza neighborhood northeast of downtown Los Angeles, police spokeswoman Sara Faden said.

Police said the boy had been stabbed multiple times with a kitchen knife and the mother's wrists sustained cuts that were apparently self-inflicted in a grisly scene that left officers disturbed.