Stabbing

In the age of Twitter, Facebook and other social media tools, Los Angeles police officials say they relied on students at a Reseda high school and their social media skills to help catch a trio of murder suspects Thursday. About 12:15 a.m., just eight hours after Kevin Orellano, 18, was stabbed to death at Grover Cleveland High School, police descended on a Van Nuys neighborhood and arrested the alleged attackers. Michael Steven Carpio, 19, of Panorama City, Michelle Pineda, 19, of Los Angeles and Carpio's 16-year-old brother were booked on suspicion of murder.

A third suspect has been arrested in the fatal stabbing of an 18-year-old man at Cleveland High School in Reseda, Los Angeles police said. In addition to Michael Steven Carpio, 19, of Panorama City and the 16-year-old, police said they also arrested Michelle Pineda, 19, of Los Angeles. The three were arrested about 12:15 a.m. Thursday on suspicion of murder, police said. Kevin Orellano, an adult school student at West Valley Occupational Center in Woodland Hills, died from a stab wound he received in a fight just before 4 p.m. Wednesday at Cleveland High.

A student was stabbed at Cleveland High School in Reseda in an incident in which two attackers fled, police said Wednesday evening. The stabbing was reported shortly before 4 p.m. Wednesday at the campus at  8140 Vanalden Ave.,  the Los Angeles Police Department said. The student, believed to about 18, was taken to a local hospital. His condition was not immediately known Wednesday evening. "He was on campus," Officer Christopher No told The Times. "The suspects left the campus.

A student who was fatally stabbed at Cleveland High School attended an adult school in Woodland Hills, law enforcement authorities said Wednesday night. The victim was a student at West Valley Occupational Center, Los Angeles Police Department Cmdr. Sharon Papa told The Times. He was believed to be 18 years old. The student was attacked on one of the school's handball courts about 4 p.m. after an argument with two men who were described as being between 18 and 20, authorities said.  School police and LAPD officers saturated the area and began searching for the two men. Police said they did not believe that the two men were students at the school.

An adult school student was stabbed Wednesday afternoon in an altercation at Cleveland High School in Reseda and later died of his wounds, law enforcement authorities said. The victim was a student at West Valley Occupational Center in Woodland Hills, according to Los Angeles Police Department Cmdr. Sharon Papa. He was believed to be 18. The student was attacked on one of the school's handball courts about 4 p.m. after an argument with two men who were described as being between 18 and 20, authorities said.

A musician and a retired attorney were found fatally stabbed Monday inside their home in Davis. Oliver “Chip” Northrup, 88, and 76-year-old Claudia Maupin were found dead Monday morning inside a home on Cowell Boulevard. Officers initially went to the house to do a welfare check, as the two had not been seen or heard from all day. Northrup played guitar in a group called the Putah Creek Crawdads. They performed Saturday at the Davis Farmers Market. Northrup was also a retired attorney, dealing with court of appeals-level cases.

A 19-year-old Lancaster man was in jail Thursday after allegedly stabbing a woman multiple times and later leading deputies on a short foot chase. When deputies responded to a “family disturbance” call Saturday, suspect Jaquain Smith had already fled the scene, Sgt. Ronald DiGiovanni of the Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department's Lancaster station said in a statement. Wednesday afternoon, while the 20-year-old stabbing victim was at the sheriff's station telling deputies she had received threats from the suspect, she spotted Smith standing at a bus stop nearby.

At least 11 people were stabbed at a Houston-area college Tuesday, which was on lockdown after the attacks, officials said. At least four victims at the Cy-Fair campus of the Lone Star College system in a northwestern Houston suburb were taken by helicopter to local hospitals, and more were taken by ambulance, the school said in a statement. The Harris County Sheriff's Office reported that a suspect had been taken into custody after the incident at the school's Health Science Center.

CYPRESS, Texas -- A male student from Lone Star College in Texas has been arrested in connection with a mass stabbing attack on campus that injured 14 people, two critically. The student, whose name was not released, is believed to be about 21 years old and is suspected of acting alone in what one official described as a "building-to-building" attack at the community college.  The campus was put on lockdown and then closed for the day after the late morning attack. Twelve of the victims were hospitalized with laceration injuries, including four who were taken to the hospital by helicopter.