LOS ANGELES – The L.A. County Office of Medical Examiner released the name of a 44-year-old woman who was fatally stabbed at a home in the Jefferson Park neighborhood of South Los Angeles by a man police said was her boyfriend.

The stabbing happened around 10:45 p.m. Friday in the 1800 block of West Adams Boulevard between Dalton and Halldale avenues. Arriving officers found the victim, identified as Yesenia Guzman Avila of Los Angeles, suffering from stab wounds and she was pronounced dead at the scene by Los Angeles Fire Department paramedics.

Witnesses told officers the 32-year-old suspect was nearby and they arrested him at the scene. His name was not immediately available.

Police were investigating the stabbing as a homicide, with the LAPD’s South Bureau homicide unit in charge of

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