PHOENIX (AZFamily) — Authorities have identified the man accused of stabbing his girlfriend to death at a Phoenix home early Friday morning.

At about 4 a.m., first responders were dispatched to a house near 21st Avenue and Hadley Street , just north of Buckeye Road, after a man told dispatchers he had killed his girlfriend.

Officers arrived at the home and found the man, identified as 47-year-old Jeffrey Rael, and took him into custody, according to the Phoenix Police Department.

Police went inside the home and found 31-year-old Paxton Wallace suffering from multiple stab wounds. She died on the scene.

Investigators did not provide details about what weapon was used, but said that Wallace’s injuries were from “a sharp bladed instrument.”

Rael was taken to a local hospital as a prec

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