Two people were fatally stabbed Thursday at a Los Angeles County mall and a suspect was arrested, authorities said.
Officers went to the scene just before noon in Palmdale, north of Los Angeles, and found a woman in the parking lot of the Destination O Eight mall. She was pronounced dead at the scene. A man who had been stabbed at least once in another area of the parking lot died at a hospital, according to the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department.
The names of the victims were not immediately released.
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A witness described the attack on the woman to KCBS-TV.
“The lady was screaming and running back and forth from the parking lot and (someone) stabbed her a couple of times in the back, in the side of the ribs and in the stomach,” he said.
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A victim allegedly screamed and ran back and forth in the parking lot before being fatally stabbed in Los Angeles County, California.
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The woman fell and the killer “walked away from her, came back and started stabbing her again,” Treece said. “He then left again, came back, kicked her and stabbed her two more times.”
Authorities arrested a man at the scene. News video showed a bearded, shirtless man in a vest and cap being held down by deputies.
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Authorities did not immediately say a motive for the stabbings or say whether the victims knew the suspect.