Child Protective Services were called to a home recently where a child was discovered after a violent domestic dispute took place, that ultimately resulted in the death of both parents.

Authorities say that the incident took place just before 9 pm, at the Pheasant Ridge Apartment complex in Kentwood. Officers were dispatched to a home for a domestic disturbance. But when they arrived, no one let them into the house. An officer looked in through the window and noticed a large quantity of blood on the floor, and so officers forced entry into the apartment.

Inside the home they discovered a woman who was suffering from severe injuries. As the first officers breached the door, a man fled the premises. Although the on-scene officers administered first aid to the injured woman and tried to save her life, she died at the scene, before paramedics were able to move her.

As for the man who fled when police first entered the apartment, responding officers set up a perimeter around the area, and began to search. Once the suspect was identified by an officer, a number of officers confronted the suspect.

But the suspect, a 43-year-old man, had a knife and threatened the officers. The officers tried unsuccessfully to overcome the suspect, who fought with them and resisted arrest. At one point the man made a threatening move towards one of the officers and was shot by another officer. He was then secured and officers applied first aid in an effort to stop the bleeding. But the man died shortly afterwards, in an area hospital where he was receiving treatment for his injuries.

But while all of this was taking place, officers inside the home who had tried unsuccessfully to save the woman’s life, discovered that there was another member of the family present in the apartment – a child. Officers called CPS, and the child, a 7-year-old boy, was turned over to the state until a relative could be notified.

As of now, the names of all members of the family are being withheld until family members can be notified of the deaths and the child’s status.