MURRIETA, Calif. - A suspect has been arrested and faces murder charges after an Inland Empire couple was brutally attacked at their Murrieta home on Wednesday morning.

What we know:

On Wednesday, November 5, the Murrieta Police Department received a 911 call shortly before 8:20 a.m. The caller reported that an unknown individual had entered her home on Old Spring Road and attacked her and her husband.

She stated that she had been stabbed with a screwdriver and that her husband had been stabbed with a knife, adding that she believed her husband was no longer alive. The victim also informed authorities that the suspect had fled the scene through the back door after the terrifying incident.

When first responders arrived at the home, the 70-year-old husband was pronounced dead at the sc

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