Man arrested after girlfriend, son found dead with ‘obvious’ trauma, California cops say

Officers called to check on a neighbor spotted a 15-year-old boy on the floor in a California apartment on the night of Saturday, Jan. 29, police reported.

When the teen did not respond, officers entered and found he was dead, along with a 30-year-old woman in an upstairs room, Antioch police said in a news release.

Both “suffered from obvious trauma,” police said, although the release did not describe how they died.

A Redwood City police officer later arrested a 34-year-old man at a train station in connection with the case, police said. He was the woman’s boyfriend and the teen’s father.

No names will be released while the investigation into the deaths continues, police said.

“Heartbreaking incidents like this can have a profound effect on our community,” police wrote. “The Antioch Police Department would like to extend our deepest condolences to the families of this unspeakable tragedy.”

Antioch is a city of 115,000 in the Sacramento-San Joaquin River Delta.

This story was originally published January 31, 2022 at 12:43 PM with the headline "Man arrested after girlfriend, son found dead with ‘obvious’ trauma, California cops say."