Police recovered a paring knife, bloodstained comforter and a double-bladed ax from inside an Elk Grove apartment where a teenage son allegedly killed his father last week.
Darrell Dewitt, 19, is suspected of stabbing his father once in the chest, three times in the abdomen and once in the neck on Sept. 20, according to search warrant documents returned to court Wednesday.
Elk Grove police previously identified the murder weapon as an ax.
Dewitt underwent surgery and remained hospitalized for two days with several stab wounds, which police said were self-inflicted. He was booked into the Sacramento County Main Jail on Friday.
The 44-year-old victim, also named Darrell Dewitt, was found on the floor in a rear bedroom at 7:50 p.m. on Sept. 20.
Officers found blood spatter on the wall behind Dewitt's body and blood on the bed, the search warrant documents said.
Police were originally called to the scene by another son of the victim, who told officers his father had fought with his brother the day before.
Once inside the apartment, an officer said, he saw a man with a knife walking toward him.
That man told police he had grabbed the knife from the now jailed suspect, who is suspected of stabbing himself.
After the younger Dewitt collapsed onto the floor from his injuries, an officer dragged the suspect "out of the room into the kitchen area where he immediately performed CPR/FirstAid on him," according to the search warrant documents.
The younger Dewitt is scheduled to appear in court next Thursday.
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