An Asian woman was fatally stabbed while walking her dogs in California in what police are calling a random attack.
Ke Chieh Meng, 64, was with her two puppies in Riverside at about 7:30 am on Saturday, when she was stabbed and left on the floor bleeding, KTLA-TV reported.
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Police officers responding to the scene found her on the floor and transported Meng to a local hospital, where she was pronounced dead, according to the station.
Meng’s suspected attack, Darlene Stephanie Montoya, 23, was identified by the police as a transient. She was arrested near the crime scene and charged with what the police described as a “completely random” attack.
“There was nothing to suggest that the victim was attacked because of his ethnicity,” Riverside Police Department spokesman Ryan Railsback told The New York Post on Sunday.
“Let’s try to search [the suspect’s] a history of drug abuse and a history of mental health, ”said Railsback, adding that police officers“ don’t close the door on anything ”.
Montoya was fined at the Robert Presley Detention Center on suspicion of murder and also accused of being under the influence of a controlled substance and sentenced to imprisonment without bail, CNN reported.
Montoya had last been arrested on March 30 and charged with assault with a deadly weapon after allegedly attacking a woman with a skateboard near a local shopping center, but was released without bail due to COVID-19 restrictions.
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Railsback said the victim in that case was a white woman.
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