Damaris Quiles, 35

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Damaris Quiles, 35, a Latina woman, and her mother, Carmen Quiles, 73, were stabbed to death by Walter Garcia, 37, at about 8:45 a.m. in Tujunga Thursday, Jan. 10, in a double murder-suicide. Garcia was arguing with Demaris, and her mother, who lived with her at 6846 Quinton Lane, came outside to intervene. Garcia stabbed the two women then drove to Pasadena and jumped to his death from the Colorado Street Bridge. The mother was declared dead at the scene and Damaris was taken by ambulance to a local hospital, where she was pronounced dead at 9:35 a.m., said Officer Karen Smith of the Los Angeles Police Department’s media relations office. The couple had a 6-year-old son, who was at school at the time of the incident.

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