{"id":4543,"date":"2025-10-14T20:18:26","date_gmt":"2025-10-14T20:18:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/4543\/"},"modified":"2025-10-14T20:18:26","modified_gmt":"2025-10-14T20:18:26","slug":"cal-state-long-beach-student-stabbed-to-death-by-roommate-officials-say-press-telegram","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/4543\/","title":{"rendered":"Cal State Long Beach student stabbed to death by roommate, officials say \u2013 Press Telegram"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A 22-year-old Cal State Long Beach student died after one of his roommates <a href=\"https:\/\/www.presstelegram.com\/2025\/10\/04\/man-found-fatally-stabbed-along-temple-avenue-in-long-beach\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">stabbed him over the weekend<\/a>, officials said Thursday, Oct. 9.<\/p>\n<p>The stabbing killed Spencer Timms and injured another roommate, who was hospitalized but stable, according to a Long Beach Police Department news release.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe are profoundly saddened by the loss of our student, Spencer Timms,\u201d said Jeffrey Cook, a university spokesperson. \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<p>Officers responded around 10:40 a.m. on Saturday, Oct. 4 to the 1300 block of Temple Avenue, where they found the two victims. Timms was pronounced dead at the scene.<\/p>\n<p>Police arrested Alejandro Iniestra, 34, on suspicion of murder and attempted murder. His bail was set at $2 million.<\/p>\n<p>Police didn\u2019t release a motive for the stabbing. University officials and police didn\u2019t specify if any other students were involved in the stabbing.<\/p>\n<p>Originally Published: October 9, 2025 at 4:06 PM PDT<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A 22-year-old Cal State Long Beach student died after one of his roommates stabbed him over the weekend,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2642,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[7,723,138,131,133,132,137,100,1878,136],"class_list":{"0":"post-4543","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-long-beach","8":"tag-california","9":"tag-crime","10":"tag-crime-and-public-safety","11":"tag-long-beach","12":"tag-long-beach-headlines","13":"tag-long-beach-news","14":"tag-los-angeles-county","15":"tag-news","16":"tag-stabbing","17":"tag-top-stories"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4543","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=4543"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4543\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2642"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4543"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4543"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4543"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}