California IN BRIEF : CALIPATRIA : Teen Fakes Death, Helps Save Family

A teen-ager injured with her mother and brother during a knife attack at their Imperial Valley home played dead and then crawled to a telephone to call authorities, who arrested a neighbor, police officials said. The 15-year-old girl’s phone call to 911 emergency dispatchers may have saved the lives of the family, whose names were not released, and helped officers make the arrest in the case, said J. Leonard Speer, Calipatria’s police chief. Arrested in the attack was Victor Perez Marquez Jr., 19, who lived next door to the family, Speer said. Speer described the scene at the home as “a bloodbath.”