A 36-year-old woman has been arrested on suspicion of fatally stabbing her 19-year-old daughter at an apartment complex in Martinez on Tuesday afternoon, according to police.

Martinez police on Wednesday announced the arrest of Brittney Kazee, who is accused of the stabbing death of her daughter Shaniyah Kazee after officers had responded at 1:41 p.m. Tuesday to a report of two women in a physical altercation at an apartment complex on Fig Tree Lane.

While officers were en route, they learned someone had been stabbed, and they arrived to find the daughter lying unconscious in the parking lot. She was taken to John Muir Medical Center in Walnut Creek but succumbed to her injuries there, police said.

Brittney Kazee was located in the area after the stabbing and was detained and later book

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