{"id":45357,"date":"2025-11-09T14:01:35","date_gmt":"2025-11-09T14:01:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/45357\/"},"modified":"2025-11-09T14:01:35","modified_gmt":"2025-11-09T14:01:35","slug":"man-allegedly-broke-into-random-home-stabbed-elderly-woman-in-head-with-screwdriver","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/45357\/","title":{"rendered":"Man allegedly broke into random home, stabbed elderly woman in head with screwdriver"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>MURRIETA, Calif. (WKRC) &#8211; A man allegedly broke into a random house and stabbed an elderly man to death before stabbing his wife in the head with a screwdriver.<\/p>\n<p>The Murrieta Police Department announced in a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.murrietaca.gov\/DocumentCenter\/View\/15358\/Homicide-\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">press release<\/a> that it received a 911 call at 8:18 a.m. on November 5 from a woman who reported &#8220;that an unknown person had entered her home and attacked both her and her husband.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The reporting party stated she had been stabbed in the head with a screwdriver, while her husband had been stabbed with a knife,&#8221; the release read. &#8220;The caller also indicated that her husband appeared to be deceased and that the suspect had fled out the back door.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The caller clarified that she did not recognize the suspect and did not have any history with him prior to the stabbing.<\/p>\n<p>Upon arriving to the scene, officers reportedly confirmed that the woman&#8217;s 70-year-old husband had been killed in the stabbing and began searching for the suspect. The woman was taken to the hospital as officers began a coordinated search of the area. As of the publication of the press release, the woman was in stable condition.<\/p>\n<p>The suspect, identified as 36-year-old Manual Arturo Alvarez, was allegedly found at 8:57 a.m. hiding in a ravine in a nearby residential area.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The male failed to comply with officers\u2019 commands and concealed himself in nearby bushes,&#8221; the release said. &#8220;After several minutes of unsuccessful attempts to gain compliance, a police K-9 was deployed to assist in apprehending the male. He was quickly taken into custody and later identified as the suspect in the homicide.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Alvarez was charged with homicide and attempted homicide.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"MURRIETA, Calif. (WKRC) &#8211; A man allegedly broke into a random house and stabbed an elderly man to&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":45358,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[151,153,152],"class_list":["post-45357","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-bakersfield","tag-bakersfield","tag-bakersfield-headlines","tag-bakersfield-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45357","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=45357"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45357\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/45358"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=45357"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=45357"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=45357"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}