Suspect arrested after stabbing at Morongo Valley mobile home park leaves 1 dead, 1 in hospital
The Sheriff’s Department has released new information about their murder investigation at a Morongo Valley mobile home park.
On Wednesday morning at around 3:15 a.m., San Bernardino County Sheriff’s deputies responded to the Roadrunner Mobile Home Park at 51063 Twentynine Palms Highway. The Sheriff’s Department said that they were initially called to respond to an unknown problem and that when deputies arrived they found one person dead.
The Sheriff’s Department identified the suspect as Rocky Duarte, a 41 year-old resident of the mobile home park.
The Sheriff’s Department said that the female victim awoke to find Duarte in her home, and that Duarte stabbed the male victim before stabbing the female victim. The male victim, a not-yet-identified 58 year-old, was pronounced dead at the scene. The female victim, 59 years old, was found by deputies with visible lacerations to the left side of her face, neck and left shoulder area. She was taken to a hospital for treatment.
Duarte was found several hours later in his residence at the mobile home park and taken into custody. A witness told Z107.7 that residents were asked to remain in their homes until after 10:00 a.m.
Rocky Duarte was arrested on suspicion of murder and attempted murder and is being held at the West Valley Detention Center without bail.
