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Coachella: Man suspected of stabbing two women in front of children critically wounded in struggle with Sheriff's deputy

A man suspected of stabbing two women in front of their children was later shot and critically wounded during a struggle with a sheriff's deputy, a sheriff's spokesman said today.

Dispatchers received a 911 call at 9:16 p.m. Saturday from one of the kids, who said "my mom got stabbed'' at a house in the 84-500 block of Avenue 52 in Coachella, Riverside County sheriff's Deputy Armando Munoz said.

As paramedics tended the two cut women, deputies combed the neighborhood looking for the man who reportedly cut them, later identified as Saul Gonzales, 22, of Coachella.

More than an hour after the as...

 

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