Fugitive Questioned on Southland Crimes
Los Angeles police detectives went to Northern California on Tuesday to interview a 24-year-old man suspected of stabbing a woman to death in the Los Feliz area on the same day he allegedly tried to kidnap a junior high school girl.
Aaron Blount, of Philadelphia, was arrested in San Rafael and held on the Southland crimes as well as on suspicion of raping a 13-year-old Sacramento girl and taking a car from a woman there.
The Los Angeles murder victim was Rafela Ortega, 22, a waitress, who was stabbed in the 2000 block of Dracena Drive last Wednesday.
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