Court records provide details about Friday stabbing in Abbotsford that left 2 children dead and woman injured
NEILLSVILLE − The attorney for a 29-year-old Abbotsford man charged with stabbing two children to death is questioning his client's competency to go through the court process.
Victor M. Gomez Acosta faces two counts of first-degree intentional homicide and one count of attempted first-degree intentional homicide. During a bail appearance Tuesday, Gomez Acosta's attorney, Joseph Kaupie, asked Clark County Circuit Judge Lyndsey Boon Brunette to order a competency evaluation for Gomez Acosta.
Gomez Acosta is being held on a $1 million cash bail and is scheduled to make an initial appearance on the charges, which were filed Tuesday, on July 30.
According to the criminal complaint, at 1:39 a.m. July 5, a caller reported a woman had been stabbed and was in a mobile home in the 300 block of East Oak Street in Abbotsford. The caller said the man the caller thought stabbed the woman was in another mobile home a few doors down.
When officers arrived, they found a woman sitting in a chair, leaning forward. The woman was bleeding heavily, according to the complaint. The woman said she was having trouble breathing, felt tired and was not able to talk. When asked what happened, the woman said she didn't know. "We were all sleeping, and he stabbed me," the woman said.
Police are not releasing the names of the victims.
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Central Fire and EMS arrived a short time later, treated the woman and took her to Marshfield Medical Center. Officers later learned the woman had been stabbed 17 times, including one time that cut a vocal chord and one time that came close to her jugular vein, according to the complaint. The woman's injuries required surgery.
Officers saw Gomez Acosta inside the second mobile home and ordered him to come out. When he did not come out, an officer who spoke Spanish gave the orders in Spanish. Gomez Acosta's sister arrived on scene and officers asked her to caller her brother and talk to him on the phone. Afterward, an officer tried calling Gomez Acosta too, but he would not talk or come out.
Gomez Acosta eventually came out of the mobile home, carrying a knife, according to the complaint. On the officer's command, he dropped it at his feet. Gomez Acosta then went back into the mobile home and got down on his knees. When the officer ordered him to come out, he walked out on his knees and police took him into custody.
When officers went into the mobile home, they found two children dead in a bedroom. An autopsy found the older child had 20 stab wounds and the young child had 16 stab wounds. The cause of death for both children was the wounds, according to the complaint.
When police arrived at the Colby-Abbotsford Police Department, they discovered Gomez Acosta had eight stab wounds to his chest. Police called an ambulance to take him to Marshfield Medical Center. On the way, one of the EMS members said Gomez Acosta asked for how long he was going to jail, said a prayer in Spanish and said the two children were with God now.
Contact Karen Madden at 715-345-2245 or kmadden@gannett.com. Follow her on Twitter @KMadden715, Instagram @kmadden715 or Facebook at www.facebook.com/karen.madden.33.
This article originally appeared on Wisconsin Rapids Daily Tribune: Victor Gomez Acosta of Abbotsford is charged with killing 2 children
