‘Pure hate’ drove deadly 2-hour stabbing rampage in Orange County, police say

Garden Grove Police Cpl. Charles Starnes displays photos of suspect Zachary Castaneda (Irfan Khan / Los Angeles Times)

Coroners remove the body of a stabbing victim from the Casa De Portola apartment complex in Garden Grove. (Irfan Khan / Los Angeles Times )

Police investigators work at the Casa De Portola apartment complex in Garden Grove where the first two victims in a stabbing rampage were attacked Wednesday. (Irfan Khan / Los Angeles Times)

Fire crews treat a man who was stabbed at a Chevron gas station in Garden Grove.  (OnScene)

Police investigators work at the Casa De Portola apartment complex in Garden Grove, where two people were fatally stabbed. (Irfan Khan / Los Angeles Times)

Garden Grove Police Det. Steven Heine at the Casa De Portola apartment complex. (Irfan Khan / Los Angeles Times)

Twin sisters, reportedly the daughters of a woman who was stabbed at a business in Garden Grove on Wednesday, leave the Casa De Portola apartment complex. (Irfan Khan / Los Angeles Times)

Balloons tied to a light post at the Garden Grove apartment complex where two people were fatally stabbed. (Irfan Khan / Los Angeles Times)

Police arrest a suspect, identified as Zachary Castaneda, in the stabbings in Garden Grove and Santa Ana. (OnScene)

A man suspected in multiple stabbings in Garden Grove and Santa Ana, identified as Zachary Castaneda. is taken into custody. (OnScene)

Police were still at work Wednesday night, hours after the stabbing rampage ended outside a 7-Eleven store in Santa Ana. (Genaro Molina / Los Angeles Times)

The scene at a gas station in Garden Grove, where a customer was stabbed in the back and his nose nearly severed, police say. (Genaro Molina / Los Angeles Times)

A photo of the stabbing suspect, identified Zachary Castaneda, at Garden Grove police headquarters. (Irfan Khan / Los Angeles Times)