Man in custody after fatally stabbing woman in South LA

LOS ANGELES – A 32-year-old man is in police custody Saturday on suspicion of fatally stabbing a 43-year-old woman in the Jefferson Park neighborhood of South Los Angeles who police said was his girlfriend, authorities said Saturday.

Officers from the Los Angeles Police Department’s Southwest Division responded at 10:47 p.m. Friday to the 1800 block of West Adams Boulevard regarding a stabbing, according to an LAPD spokesman.

When the officers arrived, they found the victim suffering from stab wounds. Witnesses told officers the suspect was nearby and they arrested him at the scene…

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