Published: Sunday, August 8, 2010 at 5:40 p.m.
A man accused in the stabbing deaths of his estranged wife and her sister was taken to a hospital to be treated for non-life threatening injuries, authorities said Sunday.
Stephen G. Rivers, 35, stabbed himself three times in the torso with a pocketknife and was being treated at LSU hospital in Shreveport, said Cpl. Dusty Herring of the DeSoto Parish sheriff's office.
The Times reports Rivers was arrested before noon Sunday after an almost seven-hour manhunt.
A district judge has signed an arrest warrant charging Rivers with first-degree murder for the deaths of his estranged wife, Diana Irene Knight Rivers, 25, and her sister, Virginia Lee Knight, 24, the newspaper reported. They were killed in a home in the Keach-Shiloh community Sunday morning.
When Stephen Rivers is out of the hospital, he'll be booked, Herring said.
Diana Rivers died at the scene after being stabbed multiple times and Knight was taken by Life Air to LSU Hospital in Shreveport, where she later died, authorities said.
Six children were also at the home, but none was injured, authorities said.
Herring said the victims' mother told dispatchers during a 5:05 a.m. 911 call that she arrived to find both her daughters stabbed.
Deputies later caught Stephen Rivers after dogs tracked him to the woods.
Diana Rivers filed a protective order against her estranged husband last year, and in July he filed one against her, court records show. Diana Rivers filed for divorce on July 29.
Both were scheduled to be in DeSoto District Court on Tuesday.
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