SACRAMENTO, Calif. — Editor’s note: This article contains the cause of death of a child. The description is graphic.
The Sacramento County Sheriff’s Office is investigating the death of a 1-year-old as a homicide.
According to the sheriff’s office, it unfolded just after 4 a.m. Friday at a home along the 7500 block of Versailles Way in Antelope.
Deputies say they were called to the home for a “family disturbance” and found it was a domestic violence situation between a husband, wife and his mother-in-law.
Upon arrival, deputies found the woman outside while 28-year-old Andrey Demskiy was still inside the house. The sheriff’s office says Demskiy refused to come to the front door and then deputies found out an infant was inside.
Deputies reportedly forced their way inside the house and Demskiy allegedly started fighting with them. They detained him and then found the 1-year-old beheaded.
His mother-in-law was also taken to the hospital with non-life-threatening injuries.
Investigators believe the beheading happened after his wife and mother-in-law left the home.
“The deputies that had to discover that and see that — and again these are human beings that go home every night to families, to their kids — and have to process this. This is something that has shaken them,” said Sgt. Amar Gandhi with the Sacramento County Sheriff’s Office. “I can’t think of a worse call in 20 years.”
Demskiy was eventually arrested and booked on suspicion of murder, corporal injury on a spouse and assault by means of force likely to produce great bodily injury. He’s being held without bail.