Tucson police arrested a man accused in stabbings that killed a woman and injured another man Friday night.
Police gave the following account in a news release Saturday:
Tucson police and Tucson Fire personnel were called to the 700 block of East Fort Lowell Road shortly before 10:30 p.m. Friday, Sept. 8, for reports of a stabbing.
They found a woman, Jessica Johnson, 40, who had been stabbed. She was pronounced dead at the scene.
Officers found and detained the suspect nearby, 73-year-old Stephen Rudisill.
A second victim flagged down officers at the scene. That man was taken to a hospital with serious but non-life-threatening injuries.
Homicide detectives say that Rudisill, Johnson and the other man were fighting and that Rudisill "used a sharp-edged weapon, striking the two victims."
Rudisill is being held in the Pima County jail on suspicion of one count of first-degree murder and one count of aggravated assault.
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