East Bay police: Woman fatally stabs boyfriend, says she acted in self-defense

A woman fatally stabbed her boyfriend in a Hayward apartment Saturday morning in what she told officers was an act of self-defense after he assaulted her, police said.

Officers responded to calls about a loud argument at an apartment on Depot Road near Industrial Boulevard around 9 a.m. Callers reported hearing items being thrown in the apartment, police said.

When officers arrived, they found a 25-year-old woman in a stairwell. She told them her boyfriend had assaulted her and that she stabbed him in self-defense…

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