Woman held in parents’ slaying

A 50 year-old Pittsburg woman confessed Friday to killing her parents, police said.

Menique Lashon was behind bars in Contra Costa County jail Saturday, a day after calling police to her home around 10:30 a.m. on the 4200 block of Diehl Way. When officers arrived at the house, they found Lashon’s parents dead with multiple stab wounds.

It appeared that the victims, a 67-year-old woman and 73-year-old man whose names have not been released, had been dead for several days. Lashon, who lived with them, had tried to clean up the scene before calling the police, said Capt. Rathnesh Raman of the Pittsburg Police Department.

She also tried to stage the scene as though her mother and father had been fighting, Raman said, without offering further details.

Lashon is being held on murder charges. Officers in Pittsburg are investigating the incident.