Suspect in custody after 4 people stabbed to death, child wounded in Houma

HOUMA, La. (WVUE) - Four people were stabbed to death and a child critically wounded Saturday night (Sept. 12) in the Ashland Drive area of Houma, the Terrebonne Parish Sheriff’s Office said.

The agency identified 47-year-old Kaegan Jude Solet of Houma as a “person of interest” in their investigation of the killings. Solet was taken into custody Sunday morning, the agency said in a social media post at 10:32 a.m.

The sheriff’s office later said Solet is considered the suspect in the fatal stabbings.

Solet is expected to be arrested following his release from the hospital on four counts of first-degree murder and one count of attempted first-degree murder, according to the sheriff’s office.

Deputies first went to the 200 block of Ashland Drive, where they found a child -- a boy under the age of 10 -- who had run to a neighbor’s house with serious stab wounds, the Terrebonne Parish Sheriff’s Office said.

“I’ve been doing this 28 years, and this is certainly one that you’re never going to forget,” TPSO First Lt. Blake Tabor told Fox 8. “Horrific, to say the least.”

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The child was flown by Acadian Ambulance Service Air Med to a hospital outside the area and remains in critical condition, Tabor confirmed Sunday.

“There’s a long road for this child, not only physically but emotionally as well,” Tabor said.

As deputies kept investigating, they found four dead adult victims inside two nearby homes.

The investigation is still active as detectives continue gathering evidence.

“The amount of violence that went into this one, this is certainly one that’s going to stay on the brain of all the investigators, not just the community,” Tabor said.

Anyone with information on the case is asked to call Terrebonne Parish Sheriff’s Office detectives at (985) 876-2500 or Crime Stoppers Bayou Region at (800) 743-7433.

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