Transient Arrested in Fatal Stabbing of Asian Woman
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RIVERSIDE The Riverside Police Department issued the following report on April 3 regarding the fatal stabbing of a 64-year-old woman and the arrest of a suspect.
Although the victim was of Asian descent, the police have not characterized the incident as a hate crime.
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Ke Chieh Meng
This morning just before 7:30 a.m. on Saturday, April 3, 2021, the City of Riverside’s Public Safety Communications Center received several calls of a woman down on Golden Avenue, just north of Stonewall Drive in the La Sierra neighborhood of Riverside. When Riverside police officers and paramedics with the Riverside Fire Department arrived, they located a woman bleeding from her abdomen area and suffering from stab wounds.
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The woman was stabbed in her abdominal area, said Riverside police Officer Ryan Railsback.
“Shortly after, our dispatch center began receiving calls from neighbors reporting a transient woman walking through their yards and appearing suspicious,” Railsback said. “Officers checked the nearby area and safely detained the woman.”
“The suspect was identified as 23-year-old Stephanie Montoya, a transient from Monterey Park,” he said.
“Preliminary investigation revealed Ms. Meng was walking her two small dogs along Golden Avenue this morning when she was randomly confronted and attacked by the transient woman,” Railsback said.
Detectives interviewed Montoya and determined that race did not appear to be a factor in the attack.