A preliminary hearing was postponed Wednesday for a 42-year-old Long Beach man who allegedly attacked his live-in girlfriend with a machete, then turned the blade on himself.
Alberto Hernandez Fonseca was found last February critically injured from what appeared to be self-inflected slash wounds.
Near him was the bloody corpse of his long-term girlfriend, Mireya Lopez Medina, who was pronounced dead at the scene, police said.
A relative of the one of the two came home about 8:15 a.m. Feb. 18 and found the pair in the bedroom of their home in the 1900 block of Cedar Avenue and called 911.
The couple were arguing when Fonseca attacked Medina with the machete before turning the weapon on himself, police said.
Fonseca was initially listed in critical condition, but once his condition improved he was charged with Medina's murder later that month.
"It looks like he's going to survive his own stab wounds," Sgt. Dina Zapalski said at the time.
Fonseca is scheduled to return to the Long Beach Superior Court on June 8.
He remains in the Los Angeles County Men's Central Jail in lieu of $1 million bail.
Once Fonseca's condition stabilized, Homicide Investigators Mark McGuire and Greg Krabbe took their case to the Los Angeles County District Attorney's Office for filing.
Alberto Hernandez Fonseca was found last February critically injured from what appeared to be self-inflected slash wounds.
Near him was the bloody corpse of his long-term girlfriend, Mireya Lopez Medina, who was pronounced dead at the scene, police said.
A relative of the one of the two came home about 8:15 a.m. Feb. 18 and found the pair in the bedroom of their home in the 1900 block of Cedar Avenue and called 911.
The couple were arguing when Fonseca attacked Medina with the machete before turning the weapon on himself, police said.
Fonseca was initially listed in critical condition, but once his condition improved he was charged with Medina's murder later that month.
"It looks like he's going to survive his own stab wounds," Sgt. Dina Zapalski said at the time.
Fonseca is scheduled to return to the Long Beach Superior Court on June 8.
He remains in the Los Angeles County Men's Central Jail in lieu of $1 million bail.
Once Fonseca's condition stabilized, Homicide Investigators Mark McGuire and Greg Krabbe took their case to the Los Angeles County District Attorney's Office for filing.
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