{"id":426527,"date":"2026-08-07T15:48:15","date_gmt":"2026-08-07T15:48:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/426527\/"},"modified":"2026-08-07T15:48:15","modified_gmt":"2026-08-07T15:48:15","slug":"68-year-old-man-fatally-stabbed-outside-martinez-home-suspect-sought","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/426527\/","title":{"rendered":"68-year-old man fatally stabbed outside Martinez home, suspect sought"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Authorities in Contra Costa County are searching for a suspect after a man was found fatally stabbed outside a home in Martinez on Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>Shortly before 5:10 p.m., police said they received multiple 911 calls about a person who was stabbed on Francis Court near Francis Drive and Blue Ridge Drive. Arriving officers found the victim on the ground with injuries consistent with being stabbed, police said.<\/p>\n<p>Firefighters and medical personnel responded, but the victim was pronounced dead at the scene. The victim has been identified as 68-year-old Todd Stewart.<\/p>\n<p>Investigators with the Martinez police department and crime scene investigators with the Contra Costa County Sheriff&#8217;s Office responded. Additional details about the incident were not immediately available.<\/p>\n<p>      <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/martinez-fatal-stabbing-080726.jpg#.jpeg\" alt=\"martinez-fatal-stabbing-080726.jpg \" height=\"349\" width=\"620\" class=\" lazyload\"  loading=\"lazy\"\/><\/p>\n<p>                  Photos of a suspect and suspect vehicle in connection with a fatal stabbing on Francis Court in Martinez on Aug. 6, 2026.<\/p>\n<p>                Martinez Police Department<\/p>\n<p>In a statement Thursday night, police released photos of the suspect, who had left the scene in what appears to be a gray Cadillac SUV.<\/p>\n<p>Anyone with information is asked to contact, Detective Dominguez of the Martinez police by emailing <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/sanfrancisco\/news\/martinez-fatal-stabbing-francis-court-suspect-sought\/mailto:cdominguez1@cityofmartinez.org\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">cdominguez1@cityofmartinez.org<\/a> or by calling 925-372-3451.<\/p>\n<p>\n          More from CBS News\n        <\/p>\n<p class=\"content__tags__label\">In:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Authorities in Contra Costa County are searching for a suspect after a man was found fatally stabbed outside&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":426528,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[30],"tags":[38020,134,2648,1331,101,103,102,104,106,105,1878],"class_list":["post-426527","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-san-francisco","tag-fatal-stabbing","tag-homicide","tag-martinez","tag-murder","tag-san-francisco","tag-san-francisco-headlines","tag-san-francisco-news","tag-sf","tag-sf-headlines","tag-sf-news","tag-stabbing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/426527","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=426527"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/426527\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/426528"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=426527"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=426527"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=426527"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}