Students walk past the Go Beach sign towards a detour around the under-construction USU building on Aug. 27. Ethan Cohen | Long Beach Current
A CSULB student was killed Saturday morning in an off-campus stabbing that involved three roommates, police say.
Long Beach Police arrived at the 1300 block of Temple Avenue around 10:30 a.m. on Saturday, Oct. 4.
Two men were found on the scene with upper stab wounds. One of the men, identified as Spencer Timms, 22, was pronounced dead at the scene. The other victim, 29, was taken to a local hospital in stable condition.
Alejandro Iniestra, 34, was arrested on charges of murder and is being held for a $2 million bail.
A police investigation suggests the three men were roommates.
Timms was a senior industrial design student at CSULB who transferred from Saddleback College.
Royce W. Smith, the dean for the College of Arts, sent an email statement to students in the Department of Design on Oct. 8.
“It is with a heavy heart that I share with you that one of our Department of Design and College of Arts students, Spencer Timms, passed away in Long Beach this past Saturday,” Smith said in the statement.
Smith said Timms was an “incredibly positive and impactful student, maintaining a 4.0 GPA during his time at CSULB and sharing a passion for design.”
“I remember quite well meeting Spencer on one of my visits to the department and clearly recall seeing and admiring the creative fire in him and his work,” Smith said in the statement. “A student who knew he had something special to offer and who put all of himself into honing his talents and focusing his ambition.”
This is a developing story.
News Editor Annette Quijada contributed to this story.
Editor’s Note:
Updated subtitle to provide more clarification on Oct. 9 at 12:18 p.m.
Provided the age of the surviving victim on Oct. 9 at 5:35 p.m.