The grim specter of homicide has touched the McCuddin family of Fort Dodge once again.

On Oct. 2, 2004, Lisa McCuddin, 23, was shot to death in Fort Dodge.

Now her son, who was 10 months old when she died, stands accused of stabbing his sister and nephew to death.

Davontrez R. McCuddin, 22, of Fort Dodge, made his initial appearance in Story County Magistrate Court Monday on two counts of first-degree murder.

He is accused of stabbing his sister, 26-year-old Markasia McCuddin, of Ames, and her son, 1-year-old Liam Sanders-McCuddin, Friday night in Ames.

District Associate Judge Hunter W. Thorpe set bond for Davontrez McCuddin at $3 million, cash only.

He also scheduled a preliminary hearing for March 25.

According to the criminal complaints filed against Davontrez McCuddin, at 8:42 p.m. Friday Ames police received a report of a disturbance in an apartment building at 3917 Tripp St. As officers responded, dispatchers received multiple calls reporting a man stabbing a woman at that location. At least one caller reported the man yelling, “You’re dead,” at the woman.

Officers found Markasia McCuddin and her son in the hallway, suffering from numerous stab wounds to the head and neck, according to the criminal complaints. Both of them died.

In the complaints, officers wrote that they followed a trail of blood to the building’s third floor, where they found Davontrez McCuddin covered in blood, with a deep laceration in one hand. He was immediately taken into custody.

He is wanted in Fort Dodge on a charge of attempt to commit murder resulting from a January shooting that seriously injured a man.

That incident was reported at 12:35 a.m. Jan. 4 at 903 Eighth St. S.W.

Davontrez McCuddin is accused of shooting Demontray Dungy, of Fort Dodge, that morning.

On a GoFund Me page, friends of Dungy wrote that he was “shot multiple times after someone knocked on his door.”

Lisa McCuddin was a passenger in a car traveling on Kenyon Road when she was shot and killed.

Former Webster County Attorney Jennifer Benson told The Messenger previously that McCuddin was believed to be “an unintentional victim” of the shooting.

The killing of Lise McCuddin remains an unsolved, cold case.