A young woman who had just finished celebrating her first Mother's Day stabbed an intruder to death as her husband desperately grappled with him inside their Washington state home in the early hours of Monday morning.
The harrowing struggle began at 1.40 a.m. when Tennyson Salopek Jacobson and her husband Kyle Jacobson went to check on their barking dogs and were confronted by a man in his 30s or 40s standing in their darkened hallway.
North Bend deputies said the husband and the intruder immediately started fighting and that Tennyson jumped in to help her husband - before grabbing a knife and stabbing the home invader to death.
Sgt Cindi West, spokesman with King Country sheriff's department confirmed that a man died after being confronted by the married couple and that Tennyson's mother had also become involved in the vicious early morning fight.
The couple were identified by neighbors who spoke to local news station KiroTv.Com
'When the husband was fighting with the intruder, the wife was the one that went and got the knife, and stabbed the intruder, trying to help her husband out,' said West.
The fight-to-the-death was the second time in 12 hours that the Jacobson household was broken into and investigators believe the intruder who died was the same man who robbed Tennyson Salopek Jacobson when she was at home with her mother and her baby daughter.
Sgt West said that the unidentified man entered the house through an unlocked door around 1.10 p.m. on Sunday when the wife was with her daughter and mother in the home in the Cascades foothills, about 30 miles east of Seattle. The robber assaulted her and got away with cash.
She didn't get a good look at him because her hair was grabbed from behind, West said. She was slapped and punched in the face and suffered an ankle injury as she was dragged by her hair.
'This guy apparently grabbed her by the pony tail, swung her around, robbed her, and then either slapped or punched her in the face,' said West.
Deputies searched the area during the day on Sunday with a tracking dog but were unable to find the suspect.
Earlier on Sunday, pretty Tennyson had taken to Facebook to post her joy at celebrating her first Mother's Day with her baby girl, boasting of her incredible husband and saying she 'couldn't ask for anything more.'
The trainer at Cascade Crossfit was then deluged with messages of support from friend, with one declaring her a 'mother, protector, wife, business woman and heroine'.
The fit and healthy young couple have left their home to recuperate after their frantic night battle.
The couple had no significant injuries from the fatal fight, but a detective said they were likely sore because it was 'quite a struggle,' said King County sheriff's Sgt. Cindi West.
Investigators don't believe the residents know the intruder and there's nothing to indicate why the house was attacked. There's no marijuana growing in the home, for example, West said.
'We have not seen anything that would explain why this house was targeted,' she said.
Some neighbors speculated the man may have come from a homeless camp in some nearby woods.
'This is a weird deal, just a bizarre case,' West said.
It is not known whether any charges will be filed against Tennyson.
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