A 35-year-old Chattanooga woman’s children arrived home from school today to find their mother stabbed and beaten to death, police said.
Chandra Powell’s 11-year-old son and her 15- and 16-year-old daughters found her body lying on the living room floor. Her 2-year-old was asleep beside her, Chattanooga police spokeswoman Rebecca Royval said.
A fifth child, an infant, was in a bedroom in a bassinet, Royval said.
She said police were called at 2:51 p.m. to the British Woods Apartments, 4417 Oakwood Drive, Apartment 303.
Both young children were unharmed but transported to T.C. Thompson Children’s Hospital as a “precautionary measure,” she said.