ST. CHARLES COUNTY • A mentally ill man stabbed his mother and himself in a Lake Saint Louis home early Friday.

Both mother and son were alive and being treated at a hospital Friday morning, said Chris DiGiuseppi, the Lake Saint Louis police chief. They were in serious condition, he said.

The home is on Grey Pine Court. At 5:12 a.m. Friday, police were called about a domestic disturbance. Officers descended on the home and found that a 39-year-old man had attacked his mother, police say. She is 65 years old.

The man was suffering from mental illness and "was in crisis," DiGiuseppi said. The man used a knife to stab his mother and turned the knife on himself. The chief wasn't sure who called police.

DiGiuseppi said other adults lived at the home but no one else was hurt. DiGiuseppi said the others had either escaped or somehow got to safety before officers arrived.

DiGiuseppi did not immediately have information about previous troubles at the home that resulted in calls to police.

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