Police in Riverside have received several calls about a woman suffering from stab wounds in Golden Avenue in the city of La Sierra.
Police, 64-year-old Ke Chieh Meng from Riverside, were bleeding from her abdomen and taken to a local hospital. She died from her injuries.
Shortly after the attack, police began receiving calls from neighbors in the area to report that a “passing woman was walking through their yards and appeared suspicious,” Riverside police said.
Officers responding to the calls kept the woman, identified as 23-year-old Darlene Stephanie Montoya of Monterey Park in Los Angeles County, safe.
“When the detectives interviewed the suspect with our detectives, they did not come across any evidence that she attacked the victim,” Riverside police spokesman Ryan Railsback said.
Police said Meng was walking along Golden Avenue with her two small dogs on Saturday morning when she was randomly confronted, attacked and stabbed by Montoya, who then fled the scene.
Montoya was booked into the Robert Presley Detention Center on suspicion of murder, a gun offense and under the influence of an illegal drug. She is being held without bail.
Police say Montoya was previously arrested by Riverside police on March 30 after she attacked a woman with a skateboard near a mall at Highway 91.
Officers arrested and arrested Montoya for assault with a deadly weapon, but she was soon released on a “notice to appear” due to the current bail schedule for emergencies in Riverside during the Covid-19 pandemic.