Woman charged with murder in stabbing, abduction

Updated noon Thursday: Detectives have arrested Kiara Ciares-Quinones, 23, of Indianapolis on a preliminary charge of murder in connection with a woman found stabbed to death on the Northwestside Wednesday.

Prosecutors are reviewing the case. Police have not yet released the name of the victim.

Earlier: Indianapolis investigators took into custody Wednesday night a 23-year-old woman who allegedly stabbed her roommate to death and kidnapped two young boys on the city's Northwestside.

Detectives were questioning Ciares Quinones, who is held in the Marion County Jail.

Indianapolis Metropolitan Police Department officers were dispatched to the 4500 block of North Mission Drive about 6:36 p.m. Wednesday after receiving a call from a woman who said she had just killed her roommate. Minutes later, police received another call from a neighbor in the same building who said a woman had just exited the first floor apartment stating that she'd killed someone inside.

When officers arrived at the scene, located in the Whispering Pines apartment complex, they found a woman with multiple stab wounds. She was pronounced dead at the scene.

Officers then learned that the suspect in the fatal stabbing was last seen leaving the apartment with four children in a 1999 tan (or brown) Honda Civic with Indiana license plate 110LWA. Police said two of children, boys ages 2 and 4, did not belong to the suspect, and were considered kidnapping victims.

Police said a woman at the crime scene told investigators the suspect abducted her two children.

The other two children, a 4-month-old and a 7-year-old, police said belonged to the suspect, and were taken from the scene when she fled.

Shortly after 9 p.m., less than three hours after the stabbing, IMPD officers in the southeast district spotted the suspect's vehicle near the intersection of Edgewood and Madison in a parking lot. The children were found unharmed inside the car and the suspect was detained.

The suspect's children are in temporary custody of Child Protective Services, while the other two children were returned to the woman who reported them kidnapped, police said.

Investigators have not yet released the name of the woman who was killed.

Updated 9:50 p.m. Wednesday: Police report children have been found safe. A Southeast District IMPD officer spotted the car on city's Southside.

Children were inside unharmed and the suspect is in custody, according to IMPD.

Earlier: Detectives are investigating a murder of a person and abduction of two children on the city's Northwest side, police confirm.

Indianapolis Metropolitan Police Department officers were dispatched to the 4500 block of North Mission Drive about 6:30 p.m. Wednesday on a report of a deceased person. When they arrived, they found an individual dead.

"We believe that our suspect abducted two children from the residence and may be with two additional children for a total of four children with our suspect," said IMPD Lt. Rich Riddle.

Police are waiting for a missing persons detective to arrive at the scene before releasing specific information on the suspect, Riddle said.

This story will be updated.

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