Ebenezer Choebefu and his wife heard a young girl screaming outside their home on Sunday night, crying out that "my daddy has killed my mummy and my auntie."

The girl was fleeing from a residence in the 6400 block of Penbrooke Dr, S.E., where two women were stabbed to death Sunday night and a third hospitalized with her injuries.

"She was screaming, ‘my daddy has killed my mummy and my auntie. And she just kept repeating that," Choebefu said.

The girl was outside the home where the attacks happened when she screamed for help, he said. When the girl saw Choebefu’s wife, she ran into her arms.

"(She) kept screaming, ‘my mommy is inside and she’s dead."

The child, about nine or 10 years old, according to Choebefu, told his wife that her mom and aunt hid from her dad in a room but he forced his way inside.

Police were called to the residence about 6:30 p.m. Sunday following reports of a confrontation. They found one woman dead at the scene and another seriously injured. She was rushed to Foothills Hospital but later died.

Neighbour Olivia Rodrigues was the first to reach the mortally injured woman, who had managed to get outside the residence.

"I came flying out of my house," she said. "I saw a young lady lying on the sidewalk bleeding out."

Rodrigues yelled at her fiancé to get a first aid kit and she quickly applied pressure to the woman’s wounds, which were on her upper body, until paramedics arrived.

Rodrigues said that as she applied pressure, the injured woman asked for her mom.

"The only thing she said was, ‘I want my mom. It hurts. I want my mommy, I want my mom.’ "

Rodrigues’s fiancé, meanwhile, rushed to help a second stabbed woman who Rodrigues said was lying at the duplex’s side door.

The couple’s efforts were in vain, she said.

"It didn’t help. There was nothing we could have done."

Police said the woman who died in hospital was Fahmida Velji-Visram, 29, of Calgary. She was a friend of the victim who died at the scene.

That woman, believed to be the estranged wife of a man police have in custody, has not been named.

The third woman attacked was a landlord who lived directly above the residence. Police said she was stabbed when she tried to intervene in the confrontation. She was taken to hospital Sunday with non-life-threatening injuries and has since been treated and released.

Police said two charges of second-degree murder and one of aggravated assault are pending against the suspect, who is in stable condition in hospital with self-inflicted injuries. The man is understood to have ingested a liquid prior to being apprehended in a car near the murder scene Sunday night. He is yet to be interviewed by investigators.

Staff Sgt. Doug Andrus said the suspect had recently started living alone at the property. Police were called to the address on April 9 in response to an argument.

"At that time, there was no indication of a criminal offence, and one of the parties indicated that they were leaving the residence," Andrus said.

The estranged wife had returned to the residence Sunday with a friend, her friend’s mother and a young girl to pick up some property, he said.

"It was while they were in the residence in the basement suite that a confrontation occurred, where both victims were stabbed.

"There’s no indication it was planned and deliberate, at this time."

The girl was not hurt, and was staying with friends and family, Andrus said.

Police were still searching the residence and the car where the suspect was arrested. Andrus would not discuss possible motives for the attacks.

An autopsy on the second victim was expected to be completed on Tuesday.

mwright@calgaryherald.com