Police identify suspect in fatal stabbing and kidnapping in Santa Ana
Santa Ana police have identified a suspect they say fatally stabbed a man at a home, then stabbed and kidnapped a woman from the residence.
The Santa Ana Police Department said Teodoro Bernal Nunez, 38, was arrested in the city of Brea after officers pulled him over for a traffic violation and found the woman with a stab wound inside the vehicle. She was taken to a local hospital and is expected to survive, authorities said.
The incident was reported around 1:30 a.m. Saturday in the 1200 block of South Oak Street in Santa Ana. Officers reported arriving to find a 27-year-old man sprawled on the lawn of a house. The man was pronounced dead at the scene.
Police said a witness told officers about the woman who was stabbed and then taken away, and that authorities subsequently learned about a court restraining order meant to keep Nunez away from the woman.
Police have not identified the victims. Nunez has been booked on suspicion of murder, attempted murder, kidnapping, false imprisonment, and violation of a court order.
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