© Rose AbuinCrime scene tape pictured on June 16, 2018. (Rose Abuin/New York Daily News)
An Arizona mother killed her 9-year-old daughter and 7-year-old son Saturday morning and told police she heard voices telling her to do it, according to the cops.
Yui Inoue, 40, was charged with two counts of first-degree murder, the Arizona Republic reported.
Cops said Inoue flagged down an officer near her home in the southeast Phoenix suburb of Tempe around 7 a.m. Saturday, according to local ABC affiliate KNXV. She told the cop she was hearing voices telling her to kill her children, according to police.
Officers found the kids dead from physical trauma inside the apartment Inoue shared with her husband, and immediately detained her, Tempe police said.
Cops said the husband was never a suspect, local CBS affiliate KPHO reported.
About six hours earlier, officers responded to the same apartment for a domestic disturbance, according to KPHO. Police said no one was arrested and the children were asleep in their beds. Officers said there was no indication the kids were in danger.