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STPSO: Son stabs his father to death in domestic homicide near Covington

St. Tammany Sheriff's social media gaff
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A 28-year-old man is behind bars today after St. Tammany Parish authorities say he stabbed and killed his father in a Covington-area neighborhood.

Deputies were dispatched to the 300 block of Memphis Trace, located in the Natchez Trace Subdivision, in reference to a domestic disturbance between a father and his son just before 6:15 a.m. 


Responding deputies found 58-year-old Jose Amaya, lying in the driveway of a neighbor’s residence.  He was bleeding heavily from what appeared to be multiple stab wounds, and was taken to a local hospital, where he succumbed to his injuries.

Detectives learned the victim’s son, 28-year-old Juan Amaya got into an altercation with his father Friday morning, during which he allegedly stabbed his father multiple times.

Juan Amaya was taken into custody and booked into the St. Tammany Parish Jail on an arrest warrant for one count of L.R.S. 14:30.1 Second-degree Murder.

The investigation remains active and ongoing.