Man holding toddlers tells deputy he killed his wife
IMPERIAL BEACH — A man who rang an intercom button at the Imperial Beach sheriff’s station on Wednesday told a deputy who answered the side door that he had just killed his wife, and a woman was found near a pickup truck in the parking lot with multiple stab wounds, authorities said.
The man was holding two toddlers in his arms and had a knife in his waistband when the deputy came to the door about 3:40 p.m., sheriff’s homicide Lt. Glenn Giannantonio said.
Deputies found the injured woman on the ground near a white Nissan Titan pickup in the parking lot of the station on Imperial Beach Boulevard. She was breathing, but died shortly afterward, the lieutenant said. The sheriff’s station is next to a fire station, but paramedics were unable to revive her.
The stabbing is believed to have occurred in the parking lot, Giannantonio said. A motive was not yet known.
The man was taken into custody and was being questioned at the station. The children were taken into protective custody. They were not harmed.
Both the man and woman are residents of San Diego, the lieutenant said. It was not known what they were doing in Imperial Beach and whether they indeed were married and if so for how long, Giannantonio said.
It was not disclosed if they were the parents of the toddlers. The ages and genders of the children were not released.
Giannantonio said he did not know how long the truck had been in the parking lot. The truck belonged to either the man or the woman, he said.
He said the man, who said “I just killed my wife,” did not resist being taken into custody. Without being asked to do so, the man took the knife out of his waistband and dropped it on the ground, the lieutenant said.
The adjacent sheriff’s and fire stations are part of the Imperial Beach Civic Center complex where City Council meetings are held. Giannantonio said the crime scene would be cleared in time for city employees to return to work Thursday.
The complex is across the street from a park and the city library.
Josie Dorado, a retired teacher’s aide and Imperial Beach resident for 49 years, watched from beyond the crime scene tape. “It is upsetting,” she said. She had been on her way to the library.
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