Two Sioux City teenagers were killed early Sunday, and a suspect is in custody. Police Sergeant Ryan Bertrand says officers were called to the Morningside area around 1:20 A-M on a report that two individuals had been stabbed.
Officers found 18-year-old Felipe Negron Junior and a 17-year-old girl, who were taken to the hospital for treatment of numerous knife wounds. Bertrand says both were pronounced dead at Mercy Medical Center.
Authorities were dispatched to a grocery store around 2 A-M after person showed up at the store with a stab wound. Bertrand says that person turned out to be the suspect being sought for the stabbings, 18-year-old Tran Walker of Sioux City.
Walker was treated at the hospital for his knife wound and then interviewed by police. He is charged with two counts of first-degree murder. Walker is being held in the Woodbury County Jail without bail. The two victims are the second and third people to die from violent crimes this month in Sioux City.
