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Husband suspected of stabbing wife in one of 3 unrelated slayings overnight in L.A. County

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Two women and a man were killed in three unrelated slayings overnight in Carson, Lancaster and Palmdale, and the husband of one victim is in custody, authorities said Sunday.

In the first killing, a husband is suspected of stabbing his wife to death about 11:50 p.m. Saturday in Lancaster after an argument on the 4200 block of Jonathan Street, Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Deputy Kelvin Moody said in a statement.

The husband, who has two children with the victim, remains in custody while homicide detectives investigate.

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In the second slaying, sheriff’s deputies responded to a “medical rescue” call about 1:30 a.m. Sunday in Palmdale. They found a man shot multiple times in the upper torso at 70th Street East south of East Avenue M, Moody said. The victim was pronounced dead at the scene.

The third killing, of a woman in Carson, occurred about 3:30 a.m. Deputies responded to a “person down” call and found the woman nonresponsive and with a “traumatic injury to her upper torso” in the 800 block of Pacific Street. She was pronounced dead at the scene, Sheriff’s Deputy Jeffrey Gordon said.

Sheriff’s officials provided no other information on that homicide and did not release the identities of any victims or suspects in the three killings.

Also Sunday, Glendale police said they arrested a man in connection with the stabbing death of a 51-year-old man Friday.

Ernest Lee Culbertson, 31, of Tujunga was arrested Saturday on suspicion of murder and is being held on $2-million bail, Glendale Police Sgt. Robert William said. Investigators plan to seek formal charges Monday.

Police responding to a report of a man down at 6:12 p.m. Friday found the victim stabbed to death behind an apartment in the 1200 block of East Harvard Street.

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Detectives reviewed surveillance video near the scene to identify Culbertson, whom they described as a documented gang member “who they have had numerous contacts and arrests with.” They tracked Culbertson to Los Angeles, where they found him in possession of “articles of evidence linking him to the crime” and placed him under arrest, police said.

Culbertson later admitted involvement in the incident to detectives, William said. The victim’s identity has not been released pending notification of his next of kin.

Though it remains unclear what provoked the killing, William said it appears Culbertson and the victim knew each other “and this was not a random attack.”

tony.barboza@latimes.com

@tonybarboza


UPDATES:

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12:25 p.m.: This article was updated with details about an arrest in a Glendale killing.

This article was originally published at 10:45 a.m.

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