SAN ANTONIO – A woman is dead and a man has been arrested after a domestic disturbance turned into a stabbing at a home on the city’s South Side late Tuesday night, according to San Antonio police.
James Mendoza, 52, was taken into police custody.
According to police, officers responded just after 11 p.m. to a home in the 100 block of Division Avenue not far from South Flores Street, after receiving word of a family violence incident. Officers arrived and entered the home to find a woman in her 40s deceased with multiple apparent stab wounds. The woman has not been identified.
Police said the victim had gone to the residence alone and had not been heard from for several hours. SAPD said Mendoza was found by officers inside the house with some self-inflicted wounds to both his chest and wrists. He was taken to a hospital and is expected to recover.
A preliminary police report did not say exactly what led up to the stabbing. Mendoza is charged with murder.
The San Antonio Police Department, the San Antonio Fire Department and EMS all responded to the call.
The investigation is ongoing, police said.
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