WASHINGTON — A 32-year-old man is undergoing a psychiatric evaluation after he stabbed his father to death with a kitchen knife in their Georgetown home, according to court documents.
The 911 call came in around 6:30 p.m. Wednesday from Peter Spencer who told the dispatcher he’d killed his father.
“I heard voices that I should kill him and I killed him,” Spencer told the dispatcher, according to the documents.
Spencer identified himself and after telling the call taker, “I stabbed him like 15 times,” he refused to go check on his dad’s status saying, “I don’t want to help him, I want him to die.”
When police arrived at the home on 33rd Street Northwest, they found Harrison Spencer, 71, unresponsive in an upstairs bedroom with multiple stab wounds to his chest, stomach and arms, the documents said.
His son directed police to the kitchen knife he used in the attack, which he said he cleaned and returned to the knife block, the documents said.
The elder Spencer was the former dean of Public Health and Tropical Medicine at Tulane University and spent much of his career working for the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, according to the school.
He was most recently the president of the Association of Schools and Programs of Public Health.
Peter Spencer is charged with first degree murder and is due back in court on Aug. 29.
