Overview
- The children’s father called 911 around 6:45 p.m. Tuesday after finding his sons unresponsive and told dispatchers his wife "did something to them," prosecutors said.
- Responding officers found the boys, ages 5 and 7, in a bedroom and lifesaving efforts failed before they were pronounced dead at the home.
- Priyatharsini Natarajan, 35, faces two counts of first-degree murder and one count of third-degree weapon possession for an unlawful purpose and is held at Somerset County Jail.
- Postmortem examinations by the Northern Regional Medical Examiner’s Office are pending to confirm identities and determine cause and manner of death, with names withheld.
- Investigators from Hillsborough police, the Somerset County Prosecutor’s Major Crimes and CSI units, and medical examiners continue the case as Sunnymead Elementary deploys crisis teams and authorities seek public tips.