San Diego homicide detectives have arrested a murder suspect who earlier this summer reported finding her boyfriend dead inside their Otay Mesa townhome, police said.
Investigators believe 46-year-old Amanda Smith Rosales fatally stabbed 38-year-old David Earl Jones sometime before reporting his death early on July 8 inside their home: on Caminito Quixote near Picador Boulevard, according to San Diego police homicide Lt. Andra Brown.
Rosales called police to the home around 3:30 that morning, telling dispatchers Jones was bleeding and did not appear to be breathing, according to Brown. Officers found Jones dead inside the residence with traumatic injuries to his torso.
At the time of the slaying, Brown said Rosales had reported waking up to find that Jones was home, but when she tried to wake him up, she realized he had blood on him.
“We have more questions than answers at this point,” Brown told OnScene TV that morning from the scene. The lieutenant also said at the time that although there was blood found inside the home, police did not know for certain where Jones had been injured.
Investigators have since determined Jones was stabbed inside the home, Brown said in a news release Thursday.
Detectives arrested Rosales on Thursday morning as she left her current residence in Spring Valley, Brown said. Jail records showed she was being held without bail Thursday night on suspicion of murder at the Las Colinas Detention and Reentry Facility, the women’s jail in Santee.
She’s expected to be arraigned Monday in San Diego Superior Court.