A lady was killed and three folks have been injured in an obvious stabbing spree Monday morning in Lengthy Seashore, California, police mentioned.
A suspect within the final of the assaults was in custody, and there was no “energetic menace” to the general public, the Lengthy Seashore Police Division mentioned in a press release.
The suspect’s title was not instantly launched. Investigators described the person as homeless.
The primary of the assaults being investigated for doable hyperlinks to the others happened close to St. Mary Medical Heart, one in all two degree II trauma facilities within the metropolis, police mentioned. It was reported at 5:35 a.m.
The sufferer, recognized solely as a girl, was rushed to a hospital, the place she died.
As officers have been at that scene, one other stabbing was reported at 6:25 a.m. a few half-mile away, the Lengthy Seashore division mentioned. A person stabbed in his higher physique was hospitalized with non-life-threatening accidents, it mentioned.
At 7:05 p.m. the final of the incidents was reported lower than a mile south, alongside town’s shoreline, the place two folks described solely as male have been stabbed, police mentioned.
One of many two was hospitalized with non-life-threatening accidents; the opposite was handled on the scene by responding officers, the Lengthy Seashore division mentioned.
“Officers have arrested a male grownup suspect in possession of a knife on the scene,” it mentioned.
NBC Los Angeles reported that one witness mentioned a suspect was operating alongside the shoreline at adjoining Alamitos Seashore saying he deliberate to kill everybody in his path.
The assaults have been below investigation by murder detectives, police mentioned. Motive was unknown. Detectives wish to converse to witnesses, the division mentioned.
The housing disaster in Lengthy Seashore, the place the median residence worth is north of $700,000, has been worsening. A metropolis homeless rely in February discovered the variety of folks residing on the road or in encampments elevated 22% in comparison with 2020; the quantity residing in automobiles was up 380%.
Roughly 9 in 10 homeless folks within the metropolis are from California, town mentioned.
