A 13-year-old boy in Pennsylvania came home from school to find his mother dead on a bathroom floor covered in blood after she was fatally stabbed by his stepfather, who tried to slice his own throat open but survived, according to cops.

Violette Pierre, 31, was murdered by her husband, Rocheny Clerge, on Nov. 25 inside the family's residence in Harrisburg, according to a police press release .

Pierre, a mother of three, was found underneath Clerge's body after he allegedly tried to take his own life following the slaying.

"Clerge was also covered in a large amount of blood," an arrest affidavit obtained by local NBC affiliate WGAL says. "A large knife was located to the right of Clerge in a baseboard heater. Officers observed Clerge moving and pulled him off of Pierre and performed lif

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