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Updated at 12:43 a.m. Saturday
A husband and wife were fatally stabbed Friday at their home in La Verne and sheriff’s detectives were searching for a young man wearing a backpack seen near the victims’ house around the time of the attack.
The twin stabbings in the 300 block of Roughrider Road were reported about 1:25 p.m., according to sheriff’s Deputy Grace Medrano.
Shirley Isom, 74, was pronounced dead at the scene. Her 89-year-old husband, Armie Isom, initially survived the assault and was hospitalized in critical condition, but succumbed to his wounds, sheriff’s homicide Lt. David Coleman said in a televised report.
The discovery of the victims reportedly was made by a groundskeeper, Medrano said.
Coleman also released to the media a description of the suspect. He was described as a male Hispanic, between 25 and 30 years old, and between 5 feet 7 inches and 5 feet 11 inches tall. According to witnesses he was wearing a green or orange hoodie and a backpack.
The circumstances surrounding the knifings were not disclosed by the sheriff’s department.
—City News Service