Two people were fatally stabbed on Monday afternoon in an attack that was captured in Zoom, said the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department.
The deputies responded to block 3,100 on Avenida North Marengo in Altadena at about 2:45 pm local time, after a person who called 911 reported a possible kidnapping, according to the agency. Authorities found the body of a man in a garage and the body of a woman indoors, the sheriff’s department said in a statement. The man was stabbed several times, according to the statement.
Although their names have not been released, Sheriff Lieutenant Barry Hall told NBC Los Angeles that the two victims are in their 60s.
“During the investigation, detectives discovered that the victim was conducting a Zoom call with a colleague when the attack on the man occurred,” the sheriff’s department said in the note. “Zoom’s interlocutor witnessed the attack on men and women and called 911 to report the crime.”
While police investigated, they discovered that a vehicle was missing from the residence. At some point, a man arrived with the victim’s missing car and said he lived in the house, according to the sheriff’s department. That man, Robert Cotton, 32, was arrested and charged on two counts of murder, officials said.
It was unclear what Cotton’s relationship with the victims was.
Altadena is a neighborhood about 15 miles north of downtown Los Angeles.
