A 50-year-old Long Beach woman was discovered stabbed to death in her home Thursday alongside her live-in boyfriend, also stabbed but still alive, police said.
The pair, a long-time couple who lived together in a home in the 1900 block of Cedar Avenue, were found when one of their relatives came home around 8:15 a.m., said Sgt. Dina Zapalski, a Long Beach Police Department spokeswoman.
The woman, identified as Mireya Lopez Medina, was found with stab wounds to her upper torso and pronounced dead at the scene.
The man, identified only as a Long Beach resident in his 50's, was stabbed in the upper body and taken to a local hospital where he was listed in critical condition late Thursday.
Homicide detectives are investigating the stabbings as a possible domestic violence incident, Zapalski said.
Asked if it could have been a murder/suicide attempt and Zapalski said investigators had not ruled out such a motive.
Zapalski said investigators declined to release the precise relationship of the relative who found the pair, citing the on-going investigation.
She said it was also not yet known if police had been called to the home in the past for domestic violence incidents.
Anyone with information about the stabbings is urged to call Homicide Detectives Mark McGuire or Greg Krabbe at 562-570-7244.
[TAG1]tracy.manzer@presstelegram.com, 562-499-1261.
The pair, a long-time couple who lived together in a home in the 1900 block of Cedar Avenue, were found when one of their relatives came home around 8:15 a.m., said Sgt. Dina Zapalski, a Long Beach Police Department spokeswoman.
The woman, identified as Mireya Lopez Medina, was found with stab wounds to her upper torso and pronounced dead at the scene.
The man, identified only as a Long Beach resident in his 50's, was stabbed in the upper body and taken to a local hospital where he was listed in critical condition late Thursday.
Homicide detectives are investigating the stabbings as a possible domestic violence incident, Zapalski said.
Asked if it could have been a murder/suicide attempt and Zapalski said investigators had not ruled out such a motive.
Zapalski said investigators declined to release the precise relationship of the relative who found the pair, citing the on-going investigation.
She said it was also not yet known if police had been called to the home in the past for domestic violence incidents.
Anyone with information about the stabbings is urged to call Homicide Detectives Mark McGuire or Greg Krabbe at 562-570-7244.
[TAG1]tracy.manzer@presstelegram.com, 562-499-1261.
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