Mom of 5 stabbed to loss of life by boyfriend in East LA dwelling

LOS ANGELES – Detectives are looking for a person who stabbed a woman to loss of life inside a house in East LA. 

Deputies responded to the 100 block of South Townsend Avenue simply earlier than 8 p.m. Sept. 30 after receiving a name of an assault with a lethal weapon. 

When deputies arrived at scene, they situated a girl affected by stab wounds; she was transported to the hospital the place she later died. 

In accordance with the LA County Sheriff’s Department, the lady’s boyfriend stabbed her a number of instances earlier than fleeing the scene. 

The household has recognized the sufferer as Milagros Angelica Medina, 45.

In accordance with household, Medina was stabbed by her live-in-boyfriend, who the Sheriff’s Division is just not formally figuring out presently. Medina was stabbed repeatedly in entrance of her 5 kids ages 3, 11, 13, 15 and 18, together with the 18-year-old’s shut good friend. The good friend spoke to FOX 11 about what she witnessed, and FOX 11 is shielding her id for security.  

“It was actually ugly,” she mentioned. “Her 5 kids noticed it, [along with] her three-year-old son. There was loads of blood splattered all over the place. The blood went onto him [the 3-year-old], and that is what actually broke me.”

She mentioned one of many kids tried to assist her mother as she was being stabbed.  

“Her (Medina’s) 11-year-old daughter tried to defend the mother. I believed it was actually courageous, however they (the kids) should not be going via this,” she mentioned.

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Household mentioned the stabbing was the results of Medina telling her boyfriend she wished to interrupt up.

“She simply did not need to be with him anymore as a result of she did not really feel protected,” the good friend mentioned “She hadn’t slept for 3 days straight, and he or she all the time instructed her children to keep watch over him to see if he would do something to he.” 

The good friend mentioned all the kids are petrified of the boyfriend’s doable return.  

“We don’t really feel protected in any respect,” mentioned the good friend.

Lulu, a household good friend, mentioned there have been calls to police previous to this incident, however nothing was executed.

“It is a disgrace the system is meant to assist us and except they see blood, then they don’t seem to be there. It is unlucky that the police have to answer a violent act for them to assist once they’ve [family] referred to as beforehand for a similar kind of violence and aggression at dwelling. They [police] must be extra available to assist and supply assets to the group, to girls which can be reaching out and calling for assist and sadly a good friend handed away as a result of act of violence at dwelling by a so-called cherished one,” mentioned Lulu.

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Lulu mentioned she has considerations for the kids’s security now too. She described her dialog with a social employee as troubling.

“It is unlucky that now we’ve orphans, and so they’re being displaced out of their dwelling as a result of this man took their mother, and it isn’t honest. I did not just like the comment of the social employee once I disclosed some private details about the kids. I requested in regards to the kids’s security and if he was conscious of sure data and if he was knowledgeable, and I mentioned, ‘Who’s to say that man is not going to perform the threats of the place the kids are going to,” and he answered, “Effectively it may occur anyplace,” and that’s not acceptable for a social employee who ought to place them in a protected dwelling,” mentioned Lulu.

Lulu mentioned the main target is to verify the children are protected and can be capable to get the assistance they want.

“The children are the primary precedence we’ve proper now,” she mentioned. “I simply hope with this act of violence that they offer them the assistance, the psychological assist.”

Medina was described as a loving mom who supplied for and cared for her kids.

Household and mates have created a GoFundMe page to assist bury Medina subsequent to the kids’s father who handed away from a medical situation.

Anybody with details about the assault is inspired to contact the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Division’s Murder Bureau at (323) 890-5500. You may stay nameless by calling “Crime Stoppers” at (800) 222-TIPS (8477) or by utilizing the web site lacrimestoppers.org.