A 22-year-old student at Cal State Long Beach was stabbed to death by his roommate in a swift and brutal attack that has left police searching for a motive, authorities said.<\/p>\n
On Saturday morning, Alejandro Iniestra, 34, attacked Spencer Timms and their other roommate with a knife, according to the Long Beach Police Department. Police responded at 10:38 a.m. to their residence in the 1300 block of Temple Avenue, where they found the two men bleeding heavily.<\/p>\n
Timms died at the scene while the other victim, who has not been identified by police, was transported to the hospital and stabilized.<\/p>\n
Timms\u2019 cause of death was determined to be multiple stab wounds to the chest, according to the Los Angeles County medical examiner.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe are profoundly saddened by the loss of our student, Spencer Timms,\u201d university spokesperson Jeffrey Cook said in a statement. \u201cWe have been in touch with Spencer\u2019s family, and have been reaching out to and supporting his Beach classmates and faculty.\u201d<\/p>\n
Timms transferred from Saddleback College to Cal State Long Beach in January 2024 and was pursuing a bachelor\u2019s degree in industrial design, according to his LinkedIn.<\/p>\n
Iniestra, arrested at the scene of the attack, is being held in lieu of $2-million bail, police said. The motive for the stabbings remains under investigation. <\/p>\n
He has been charged with the murder of Timms, the attempted murder of their other roommate and special allegations of use of a deadly weapon in both charges, according to court records. He is scheduled to be arraigned Oct. 21 and faces the possibility of a life sentence if convicted as charged.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A 22-year-old student at Cal State Long Beach was stabbed to death by his roommate in a swift…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1708,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[2487,2494,2490,339,2491,2492,131,133,132,2488,1331,236,2484,2495,2489,2493,2486,2485],"class_list":["post-1707","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-long-beach","tag-alejandro-iniestra","tag-bachelor","tag-brutal-attack","tag-death","tag-degree","tag-industrial-design","tag-long-beach","tag-long-beach-headlines","tag-long-beach-news","tag-motive","tag-murder","tag-police","tag-roommate","tag-saddleback-college","tag-scene","tag-special-allegation","tag-spencer-timms","tag-timms"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1707","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1707"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1707\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1708"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1707"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1707"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1707"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}