Woman apparently fatally stabbed in sword attack: LA County officials

A woman was stabbed to death with a sword in San Dimas on Thursday, apparently during a domestic dispute, the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Office said.

Officers responded to a domestic disturbance call at about 3:30 p.m. in the 300 block of South Huntington Avenue and discovered the body of a woman who had been stabbed, officials said in a news release.

When officers arrived at the scene, they found a bloodied woman carrying a sword, news station KTLA reported. The woman approached officers as they pulled up in their patrol car. According to video footage from the scene, the woman was running in the street covered in blood and holding the sword.

Officials said officers ordered the unidentified woman to put the sword on the ground and raise her hands above her head. She complied, but it was unclear why she was carrying the sword in the first place.

The woman led officers to a nearby home, where they found the stabbed woman, sheriff’s Detective Daniel Vizcarra said during a news conference. Another woman was found in the home and appeared unharmed but was taken to a local hospital for a possible heart attack, according to KTLA.

It is unclear what led to the stabbing and who was involved in the incident. Vizcarra said witnesses in the case only speak Mandarin Chinese, so homicide investigators had no immediate information about what happened.

The Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department said no arrests had been made as of Friday and that all those found in the house were in stable condition at a local hospital.