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Police Identify Pregnant Young Mother Stabbed to Death in Venice
Police are looking for two women and a man suspected of stabbing to death a pregnant woman in a busy Venice tourist area.
VENICE, CA — Authorities Tuesday sought public help to find three people involved in the fatal stabbing of a pregnant mother in Venice.
Los Angeles police investigating the stabbing death of a pregnant mother in Venice on Monday night conducted a suspect search in the 900 block of Millwood Avenue in Venice Tuesday night but did not find any suspects.
There was an SUV at the scene that matches the description of one sought in connection with the killing of 22-year-old Jasmine Angelica Preciado of Inglewood, but police have not said if it was the one they were looking for.
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Officers from the Los Angeles Police Department's Pacific Division went to 80 Windward Ave. at 9:30 p.m. Monday in response to a report of a fight and an assault with a deadly weapon, said LAPD Lt. John Radtke.
Arriving officers saw the mortally injured Preciado being held by witnesses. She was treated by Los Angeles Fire Department paramedics before being taken to a hospital, where she died, Radtke said.
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Preciado's family members told NBC4 that she was three months pregnant and the mother of a 3-year-old girl.
Police are looking for two women and a man who left the scene traveling east on Windward Avenue in a dark-colored SUV. Anyone with information on the crime was urged to call LAPD West Bureau Homicide detectives at (213) 382-9470, or (877) LAPD-247.
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