A Washington state man is behind bars for killing two women with a fillet knife after one of them dumped him, prosecutors say.

Marvin Ortiz-Montecinos, 29, stands accused of two counts of premeditated murder in the first degree , according to the King County Prosecuting Attorney's Office. Each charge comes with a deadly weapons enhancement which aims to increase a potential sentence.

The defendant was over the weekend in response to the early September murders of Victoria Aparicio Cruz, 26, and her roommate, Yaneth Gómez Hernández, 32, the King County Sheriff's Office said.

Cruz was stabbed over 20 times; Gómez-Hernández was stabbed at least 43 times and suffered other defensive injuries, authorities say.

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