"Toddler John Doe" - 3 yo/ Accused: Dr Louis Chen - Seattle WA

When a representative from Virginia Mason Medical Center knocked on
the door of Dr. Louis C. Chen's First Hill apartment on Thursday
morning, Chen answered the door nude and covered in blood, according to
court documents.


Seattle police were immediately summoned, and they entered the
penthouse and found Chen's partner, Eric A. Cooper, 29, dead and the
couple's nearly 3-year-old son slain in a bathroom. Chen was slumped
over near the front door.


Police asked Chen, "Who stabbed you and your partner?" The doctor
responded, "I did," according to an affidavit of probable cause released
Monday morning by King County prosecutors.


An affidavit of probable cause outlines the law-enforcement case against the accused.


A King County District Court judge on Saturday determined there was
probable cause to hold Chen in custody on investigation of two counts of
aggravated murder.


Chen, who suffered injuries Thursday morning, remained hospitalized
Monday morning at Harborview Medical Center, according to Dan Donohoe,
spokesman for the King County Prosecuting Attorney's Office.


Murder charges could be filed as early as Monday, said Donohoe.


Chen, 39, who was scheduled to begin work this week as an
endocrinologist at Virginia Mason Medical Center, was found bloody and
semiconscious in his apartment on Thursday morning.


Police said his injuries were not considered life-threatening.


The woman who discovered the bodies has been identified by two-law
enforcement sources as Madonna Carlson, a registered nurse and the
manager of Endocrinology and the Benaroya Diabetes Center at Virginia
Mason.


Carlson declined to talk on Friday, referring a reporter to the
medical center's public-relations office. Her adult daughter, who asked
that her name not be used, said that when Chen failed to show up at the
hospital or answer calls, her mother went to the apartment.


The initial call to police was for them to check on the welfare of
the apartment's occupants. Before they arrived, however, a second 911
call reported two men, one unconscious and the other covered in blood,
police have said.


Michelle Peterson, director of public relations for Virginia Mason,
said Chen was to have attended a two-day orientation at the medical
center Thursday and Friday.


Chen, a 2000 graduate of the University of Chicago's Pritzker School
of Medicine, had completed a three-year fellowship at Duke University in
the spring.


Property records show that Chen and Cooper shared an address in North
Carolina and had moved into the First Hill apartment together in July.
Public records additionally show that Cooper had returned to North
Carolina at some point.


http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/localnews/2015916107_chen16m.html