According To Probable Cause Affidavit Doctor Admitted He Killed Partner And Same Sex Couple’s Almost 3 Year Old Son

The Seattle Times reports that when a representative from Virginia Mason Medical Center knocked on the door of Dr. Louis C. Chen's First Hill, Seattle, Washington apartment on Thursday morning, Chen answered the door nude and covered in blood, according to court documents. Seattle police were immediately summoned, and they entered the penthouse and found Chen's partner, Eric A. Cooper, 29, dead and the couple's nearly 3-year-old son slain in a bathroom. Chen was slumped over near the front door. Police asked Chen, "Who stabbed you and your partner?" The doctor responded, "I did," according to an affidavit of probable cause released Monday morning by King County prosecutors. An affidavit of probable cause outlines the law-enforcement case against the accused. A King County District Court judge Saturday determined there was probable cause to hold Chen in custody on investigation of two counts of aggravated murder. Chen, who suffered injuries Thursday morning, remained hospitalized Monday morning at Harborview Medical Center, according to Dan Donohoe, spokesman for the King County Prosecuting Attorney's Office. Murder charges could be filed as early as Monday, said Donohoe. Chen, 39, who was scheduled to begin work this week as an endocrinologist at Virginia Mason Medical Center, was found bloody and semiconscious in his apartment on Thursday morning. Police said his injuries were not considered life-threatening. The woman who discovered the bodies has been identified by two-law enforcement sources as Madonna Carlson, a registered nurse and the manager of Endocrinology and the Benaroya Diabetes Center at Virginia Mason. Carlson declined to talk on Friday, referring a reporter to the medical center's public-relations office. Her adult daughter, who asked that her name not be used, said that when Chen failed to show up at the hospital or answer calls, her mother went to the apartment. The initial call to police was for them to check on the welfare of the apartment's occupants. Before they arrived, however, a second 911 call reported two men, one unconscious and the other covered in blood, police have said. Michelle Peterson, director of public relations for Virginia Mason, said Chen was to have attended a two-day orientation at the medical center Thursday and Friday. Chen, a 2000 graduate of the University of Chicago's Pritzker School of Medicine, had completed a three-year fellowship at Duke University in the spring. Property records show that Chen and Cooper shared an address in North Carolina and had moved into the First Hill apartment together in July. Public records additionally show that Cooper had returned to North Carolina at some point.