Police body-cam shows woman fatally attacked by son in Southern California

Newly released body-worn camera footage released by the Irvine Police Department Tuesday shows the gruesome moments leading up to the fatal shooting of a man stabbing his mother to death in front of her home last month.

After a neighbor on the quiet residential street of Green Tree Lane heard the victim, now identified as 72-year-old Parvin Montazer, screaming outside her home on Aug. 8, they called 911.

“He’s like a 35-year-old man and he’s in the street chasing his mom with a knife,” the caller is heard telling Irvine PD dispatch. “One of the neighbors tried to intervene, but he chased her with the knife.”

When police arrived at the scene just before 3 p.m., the footage clearly shows the suspect, now identified as 37-year-old Paul Montazer, struggling with his mother in the driveway of the home, a knife in his gloved right hand.

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