An intruder stabbed a husband and wife in their Old Spring Road home using a screwdriver and knife, before fleeing through the back door just after 8 a.m. on Wednesday, Nov. 5, Murrieta Police said.

Police later found the suspect in a ravine behind another home on Wild Flower Drive and arrested him on suspicion of homicide and attempted homicide.

A woman was stabbed in the head with a screwdriver and her husband had been stabbed with a knife, she reported in a 911 call, by “an unknown person” that had come into their home and attacked them. The suspect left the home and the woman believed her husband was dead, police said in a statement. The stabbings happened in a neighborhood north of Murrieta Hot Springs Road and east of the 215 Freeway.

The husband, a 70-year-old man, was declared d

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