[DM] The Texas mother who allegedly stabbed her two young children and their father in a horrifying early-morning rampage was struggling with postpartum depression, according to her recovering husband.
Holly Flores, 37, is accused of attacking her husband Justin Hommel, 34, and their 3-year-old daughter and 10-month-old son inside the family's home in Northlake, north of Dallas, early Tuesday morning.
Hommel called 911 around 4.20 a.m. after fighting off his wife, who had allegedly stabbed him and both children.
When officers arrived, they found Hommel outside the home holding the kitchen knife allegedly used in the attack, according to an arrest affidavit obtained by Fox 4.
Police detained Flores and rushed into the home, discovering the couple's daughter and baby boy lying on a bed, covered in blood.
As Flores was placed in an ambulance, she told officers she 'wanted to kill herself and she no longer wanted to live,' according to the affidavit.
But the nightmare had begun hours before the bloody attack, when Hommel awoke to the sound of his wife repeatedly trying to ignite a lighter.
Hommel told investigators he had been sleeping on the couch to help his wife, who he said had been struggling with postpartum depression since giving birth to their son 10 months earlier.
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