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‘I think I killed my mom’: Son arrested, accused of stabbing mother to death

Jun 19, 2025, 3:00 PM | Updated: Jun 24, 2025, 4:04 pm

FILE - Ogden City Police patch. (Jeffrey D. Allred, Deseret News)...

FILE - Ogden City Police patch. (Jeffrey D. Allred, Deseret News)

(Jeffrey D. Allred, Deseret News)

OGDEN — A woman is dead after police say she was found with severe lacerations that appeared to be from a stabbing in Ogden on Thursday. The suspect was reportedly taken into custody.

The Ogden Police Department said police were dispatched to the area of 1400 South and Washington Boulevard just after 1 p.m. after receiving a 911 call.

Police documents said a female 911 caller yelled, “He has a knife,” but she wasn’t able to communicate after that. Then, the documents say a male voice got on the phone with dispatch and said, “I think I killed my mom.”

When police arrived, they found a 48-year-old woman with “severe lacerations to her neck.” She was taken to a hospital, but she died, police said.

On June 24, the victim was identified as Jennifer Martinez, age 48. She was the suspect’s mother.

According to a police press release, officers also found and detained a 25-year-old suspect who was still at the scene. Police documents later identified that man as Alec Conrad Martinez.

The documents said Martinez came outside with a bloody knife to confront police when they arrived. After being ordered multiple times to drop the weapon, he eventually complied and was taken into custody.

However, when officers tried to put Martinez in the back of a police car, he grabbed an officer’s taser, the documents said. After a struggle, police were able to put him in a “WRAP” restraining device and take him to the Weber County Jail, where he’s accused of aggravated murder and disarming a police officer.

“All persons of interest have been taken into custody, and there is no ongoing threat to the public,” the police department said. “This is an active and ongoing investigation. No further details are available at this time.”

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‘I think I killed my mom’: Son arrested, accused of stabbing mother to death