LA County deputies shoot, kill knife-wielding man hours after woman was fatally stabbed in same area

Monday, January 9, 2023
SANTA CLARITA, Calif. (KABC) -- A knife-wielding man was shot to death by sheriff's deputies Sunday at the same Santa Clarita intersection where a woman was found stabbed to death a few hours earlier, according to authorities.

The shooting occurred at about 7:40 a.m. at Bouquet Canyon Road and Spunky Canyon Road, where the woman was found stabbed to death at about 1:15 a.m., according to the Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department's Information Bureau.
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Authorities say homicide investigators and deputies responded to investigate the woman's death when they saw a man walking on a dirt access road next to another road where the woman's body was found.

The dirt access road is private, and cordoned off by a barbed wire fence, authorities say.

As deputies made contact with the man, he allegedly took out a knife. Deputies tried to detain him, but he "advanced toward" them and deputies opened fire.

The woman and man were pronounced dead at the scene.
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"Investigators are working to determine if any connection exists between the murder of the female adult and the male involved in the deputy involved shooting," a Sheriff's Department news release said.



Anyone with information is asked to contact the L.A. County Sheriff's Department's Homicide Bureau at (323) 890-5500.

City News Service contributed to this report.

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