Man kills former mother-in-law in Tujunga, jumps to his death in Pasadena

Keeping you posted on the unfolding situation with a gruesome murder/suicide this morning that started in Tujunga and ended in Pasadena. This comes on the heels of the grim discovery yesterday in Sun Valley of a woman who had been shot in the head.

A man stabbed his ex-wife's mother to death, injured his ex-wife and then killed himself by jumping off a bridge in Pasadena this morning, police said.

Police got a call of a stabbing at 8:43 a.m. in a residential area in the 6800 block of Quinton Lane and Haines Canyon Avenue, police said.

The man, whose identity was not immediately available, was arguing with his ex-wife, and when her mother intervened, she was stabbed to death, said Los Angeles Police Officer April Harding.

The ex-wife was injured in serious condition at a local hospital, Harding said.

After the stabbing, the man drove to a historic bridge on Colorado Boulevard over the Arroyo Seco in Pasadena and jumped to his death, Harding said.

It was the second homicide in as many days in the Northeast San Fernando Valley.

At 2 a.m. Wednesday in Sun Valley, police discovered the body of a woman who was found with a gunshot wound to the head in the dirt along La Tuna Canyon Road.

Someone driving by spotted the body face-down on the shoulder of La Tuna Canyon Road about a half-mile west of the Foothill Freeway, Los Angeles police Capt. Joe Curreri said.

Coroner's officials spent the day conducting an autopsy and trying to identify the woman. She appeared to be 35 to 40 years old, possibly white, about 5 feet 4 to 5 feet 6 inches tall and heavyset, police said. She was wearing black pants and a white shirt.

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