Police in Altadena, California, found the bodies of two people Monday after they were attacked in their home while one of them was talking to Zoom.
According to a report from the Los Angeles Sheriff’s Department, the female victim had a video call with her colleague some time before 2:45 PM when the male victim was attacked.
The employee witnessed both ambushes via Zoom and called 911 to report them as a possible kidnapping.
When the police arrived, they found the male victim in the driveway with multiple stab wounds. He had died on their arrival, as was the female victim found in the house.
“The man was in the house,” Lieutenant Barry Hall of the Sheriffs’ Homicide Department told NBC Los Angeles. The lady was still talking on the Zoom when the male was dragged out of the house. That warned her. Then the suspect went in and attacked her. “
A male suspect, identified as 32-year-old Robert Cotton, later appeared at the house in one of the victim’s cars and identified himself as an occupant of the house. Police have arrested and booked Cotton for two murders, the police report notes.
The identities of the victims have not yet been released, but NBC Los Angeles reports that both were in their 60s. The relationship between Cotton and the victims is unclear.