Man Charged in Stabbing Death of His Stepson, 10
Prosecutors filed a murder charge Monday against an Anaheim mechanic accused of knifing his 10-year-old stepson to death over the weekend.
Coroner’s investigators determined that Francisco Meza was stabbed repeatedly in the neck and throat, police said. Detectives recovered a kitchen knife from the crime scene and have asked the Orange County sheriff’s crime lab to check fingerprints and DNA evidence for a match with Meza’s stepfather, Efrain Loza Arteaga, 26.
Arteaga, who was being held without bail, told dispatchers and detectives enough about the stabbing to implicate himself as the killer, said Anaheim police Sgt. Joe Vargas.
Detectives said they had not discovered any possible motive for the crime.
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