‘Something crazy happened’: Man stabbed wife and shot mother-in-law in front of young children who ‘were watching this happen,’ police say

Christopher Raye mugshot in front of news footage of his home

Background: News footage of the New Britain, Conn. home of Bryana Raye (WVIT). Inset: Christopher Raye (New Britain Police Department).

A Connecticut man was found walking down a road a day after he allegedly stabbed his wife and shot his mother-in-law in front of the couple’s two children.

Christopher Raye, 45, was charged with murder after the Jan. 27 stabbing death of his wife, Bryana Raye, 30, and her mother, whose identity was confirmed by friends to WVIT, an NBC affiliate, but whose name was not provided. According to the arrest affidavit obtained by The Hartford Courant, a woman from Pennsylvania alerted authorities after a phone call with Bryana Raye’s mother, reportedly telling them that she heard what she believed were gunshots and a disturbance in the background.

When police arrived at the New Britain, Connecticut home, the older woman was found in the living room with a gunshot wound to the shoulder. Bryana Raye was found in the bedroom with multiple stab wounds. She was pronounced dead at the scene.

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