Two people were fatally stabbed Monday afternoon in an attack caught on Zoom, the Sheriff’s Department in Los Angeles said.
Delegates responded to the 3100 block of North Marengola Avenue in Altadena, according to the agency, around 2.45pm local time after a 911 caller reported a possible kidnapping. Authorities found the body of a man in a driveway and a woman’s body in the home, the sheriff’s department said in a release. According to the release, the man was stabbed several times with a knife.
Although their names were not released, Sheriff Lieutenant Barry Hall told NBC Los Angeles that both victims are in their 60s.
“During the investigation, detectives learned that the female victim was making a Zoom call with a colleague when the attack on the man took place,” the sheriff’s department said in the release. “The Zoom caller witnessed the attack on the man and woman and called 911 to report the crime.”
When the deputies investigated, they learned that a vehicle was missing in the house. At one point, a man drove into the victim’s missing car and said he lived at home, according to the sheriff’s department. The man, Robert Cotton, 32, was arrested and tried on two charges of murder, authorities said.
It was unclear what Cotton’s relationship was with the victims.
Altadena is a neighborhood about 25 miles north of Los Angeles.
