A 40-year-old Long Beach man who allegedly attacked his live-in girlfriend with a machete was charged with her murder Monday.
Alberto Fonseca was found last Thursday critically injured from what appear to be self-inflected slash wounds. In bed with him was the bloody corpse of his long-term girlfriend, Mireya Lopez Medina, who was pronounced dead at the scene, said Sgt. Dina Zapalski, a Long Beach Police Department spokeswoman.
Though police did not initially name Fonseca a suspect authorities did say they were looking into domestic violence as a possible motive.
A relative of the one of the two came home around 8:15 a.m. that morning and found the pair in the bedroom of their home in the 1900 block of Cedar Avenue and called 911, police said last week.
The investigation revealed the couple were arguing when Fonseca attacked his long-time girlfriend with the machete before turning the weapon on himself, Zapalski added Monday.
Fonseca was initially listed in critical condition late Thursday, but his condition has since improved.
"It looks like he's going to survive his own stab wounds," the sergeant said.
Once Fonseca's condition was stable, Homicide Investigators Mark McGuire and Greg Krabbe took their case to the Los Angeles County District Attorney's Office for filing.
Fonseca was formally charged with Medina's murder Monday, the sergeant added.
Alberto Fonseca was found last Thursday critically injured from what appear to be self-inflected slash wounds. In bed with him was the bloody corpse of his long-term girlfriend, Mireya Lopez Medina, who was pronounced dead at the scene, said Sgt. Dina Zapalski, a Long Beach Police Department spokeswoman.
Though police did not initially name Fonseca a suspect authorities did say they were looking into domestic violence as a possible motive.
A relative of the one of the two came home around 8:15 a.m. that morning and found the pair in the bedroom of their home in the 1900 block of Cedar Avenue and called 911, police said last week.
The investigation revealed the couple were arguing when Fonseca attacked his long-time girlfriend with the machete before turning the weapon on himself, Zapalski added Monday.
Fonseca was initially listed in critical condition late Thursday, but his condition has since improved.
"It looks like he's going to survive his own stab wounds," the sergeant said.
Once Fonseca's condition was stable, Homicide Investigators Mark McGuire and Greg Krabbe took their case to the Los Angeles County District Attorney's Office for filing.
Fonseca was formally charged with Medina's murder Monday, the sergeant added.
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