Tyrone Vesperas, 38, told police he stabbed his wife, Cheryl-Lyn Vesperas, with a military-issued combat knife during a domestic dispute at his Ainaloa home, according to a police affidavit.

Vesperas also told officers that "my son died saving his mother's life," according to the affidavit filed in Hilo District Court today.

Police also made public today the 911 emergency call tapes in which a sobbing, frightened 14-year-old Tyran Vesperas-Saniatan called for help after suffering a fatal stab wound that severed his jugular vein.

"My dad stabbed me in my neck, my dad stabbed me in my neck," Tyran sobbed at the start of the conversation with a police dispatcher. "Please, come with police, call the police." Police said Tyran intervened to protect his mother as Tyrone Vesperas was allegedly stabbing her, allowing Cheryl Vesperas to escape in her car. She was pregnant, and the unborn child died as a result of the attack. At some point, Tyran was stabbed in the left side of his neck.

Police who responded to calls for help from Tyran and his mother found Tyrone Vesperas in the garage of the Ainaloa home with a cut to his left thigh.

Tyran was found dead inside the home.

Vesperas made his initial appearance this afternoon dressed in a grey T-shirt and slacks, his hands shackled to his waist.

District Judge Barbara Takase ordered that Vesperas remain in jail without bail, and ordered that Vesperas appear for further District Court proceedings on June 18.

Vesperas is charged with attempted first-degree murder, second degree-murder, attempted second-degree murder, and carrying a deadly weapon.