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James Dorsey, 41, the estranged husband who is believed to be the suspect who allegedly killed Michelle Dorsey in Santa Clarita - Photos Courtesy of Facebook & LASD

UPDATE: Woman Dead After Fatal Saugus Stabbing, Victim And Suspect Identified

A woman was sent to the hospital where she later died Thursday morning after reportedly being stabbed in Santa Clarita.

Woman Dead After Fatal Saugus Stabbing

Photo Courtesy of Facebook

UPDATE (7:15 p.m.): Sheriffs officials have located Dorsey in Neenach and crisis negotiators have arrived on scene to negotiate with the barricaded suspect and bring this event to a peaceful conclusion, according to Sheriffs officials.

UPDATE (8:45 a.m.): Sheriff’s officials are looking for James Dorsey, 41, the estranged husband who is believed to be the suspect who allegedly killed Michelle Dorsey in Santa Clarita, according to LASD Homicide Lt. Barry Hall.

The suspect has fled the scene in the victim’s car, a 2013 white four-door Chevrolet Malibu, with a California plate 7ALF904, according to officials on scene.

Dorsey is described as a male white, 5’6″, weighing 165 pounds, according to Sheriff’s officials.

Around 5:10 a.m. Thursday, first responders received reports of a stabbing in the 22800 block of Fir Court in Saugus, said Miguel Ornelas, a dispatch supervisor for the Los Angeles County Fire Department.

“We got the call from Sheriff’s for a stabbing,” Ornelas said. The victim was transported to a local hospital in Santa Clarita where she was pronounced dead, according to Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department (LASD) officials.

The Dorsey’s three children were in the home at the time of the assault, but were unharmed, according to Hall.

Dorsey is considered to be armed and dangerous.

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Anyone with information about this incident is encouraged to contact the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department’s Homicide Bureau at (323) 890-5500.

If you prefer to provide information anonymously, you may call “Crime Stoppers” by dialing (800) 222-TIPS (8477), use your smartphone by downloading the “P3 Tips” Mobile APP on Google play or the Apple App Store or by using the website.

If anyone sees a vehicle matching the wanted suspect’s, call 9-1-1, and do not approach Dorsey, according to Sheriff’s officials.

Ed. Note: This is a breaking news story, more information will be added as it becomes available.

Ed. Note: This story has been updated to include homicide information from the LASD.


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UPDATE: Woman Dead After Fatal Saugus Stabbing, Victim And Suspect Identified

20 comments

  1. KHTS again is identifying the victims before coroner’s. Completely unethical.

  2. Absolutely tragic. Prayers to those children and her family.

  3. So sad! Those poor kids. My prayers go out to them. Kinda weird. Three years ago one block away a father killed his kids, wife and then himself. That poor neighborhood has been threw a lot .

    • If you’re going to post, Robert, learn to spell correctly! Not important concerning the context but please use a dictionary! It’s through, not threw, just explaining the complete difference in meaning!

      And by all means don’t shoot the killer at least until he has a trial! At least I think that’s the way it’s supposed to work!

  4. You know what’s unethical? Murdering a woman with 3 young children. Now he’s fled, considered armed and dangerous. There are protocols in place for victim identification and if you don’t know for a fact that those protocols weren’t followed, your comment against KHTS is punitive as well as ‘unethical’. Prayers to family and friends reeling from this horrendous crime. May her memory always be a blessing.

    • Agreed !
      Armed & dangerous is concerning to the general public. He killed his estranged wife, the mother of his children ! he’s a violent felon who needs to be caught ASAP no telling if he’d kill a person he doesn’t even know.

  5. Guns don’t kill people, knives & gardening tools do—all in the hands & hearts of emotionally/mentally ill/abnormal people!! It’s said, knives paralyzed You Tube Cook “Bird Gang Gang” Rodriguez the verbal child abuser who let her low life bro-in-law in to their Apt. who behaved in his usual gang banger lifestyle of mayhem ! Good luck to the families..

    • What in the hell does any of that mean?

      • Dean, you missed it. Bird Gang-Gang Rodriguez was in the news recently because she let her her brother in law in her house and he stabbed her and left her paralyzed.

        The moral of the story… (as IF there are “morals” anymore) is there needs to be consequences for crimes, regardless of who commits the crimes. If we start treating these killers to a cup of tea and a pat on the back to “not do it again”, we will see more and more of this behavior because people will start seeing marital problems as a good justification to stab your spouse to death.

        • I see some of your point, but the first thing Bustos said seemed to imply that guns in the hands of the wrong people aren’t a problem in this country. Wake up Bustos! Especially in light of several mass shooting in the last few months.

          What a tragedy, too sad

          • You see the “mass shootings” because that’s what they want you to see and believe that guns are the problem. As Bustos said above, it’s not the choice of weapon, it’s the person.

          • Yes Butch(interesting name) you missed it—all items of harm in the wrong hands can cause Mayhem, look how innocent Social Media started out & how it’s ended up with censorship of decent freedom of speech & the Liberal emotionally unstable/abnormal reactions to the truths/facts being observed/told about their depraved behaviors/lifestyles toward normal decent societies! The reaction is Wokeholes crying about the slightest non PC truths/facts!

  6. He’s been surrounded by the police in Palmdale and has a knife in his hand. FD staging.

  7. My first thought, the children! These poor children probably heard it all happen. Makes my blood run cold.
    My condolences to this woman’s family.

  8. According to the U.S. Dept of Justice, the #one cause of death in women is domestic violence, their male partners kill them

  9. Sounds like they got him….Out in Nenack…waving the knife around, wouldn’t exit the car, slit his wrists….GOOD!

  10. Slit his wrists is dumb/wussy (which he is), should have slit his Carotids!

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