Bloody spear found at grisly double homicide in Southern California

An investigation is underway after a gruesome scene in which two people were found dead in a storage facility, a third person was rushed to the hospital and a bloody medieval-style spear was discovered Thursday in Santa Ana, authorities confirmed to KTLA.

Officers with the Santa Ana Police Department responded to a disturbance call in the 1200 block of East Chestnut Avenue at around 4:30 p.m.

The privately owned storage facility where the brutal scene unfolded is typically used for personal and business storage, KTLA learned.

A man who was working on his computer said he saw police arrive just moments before he saw a woman who said she heard gunshots. As he approached unit E, he said he witnessed an officer throwing a spear out of the unit.

The man, who did not want to be identified, said he saw an older man who was dead inside the facility and a younger woman who was not moving.

KTLA’s Samantha Cortese later learned that the young woman was also dead.

“Just a nice little dude. He’s been here a long time, just a sweetheart,” the man said of the older male victim. “He had a bad back and every time I saw him, he was just nice. I’d talk with him for a couple of minutes, same with his niece. I think it’s his niece, I don’t know.”

He added that the older male victim had told once that he was an expert in medieval swords.

Another male, who didn’t appear to be moving, was taken from the unit on a stretcher. Police said that person was rushed to the hospital in critical condition.

It is unclear at this point if that individual is a suspect in the double murders or another victim.

According to the man who spoke on the condition of anonymity, he never noticed any tension or animosity between the three people involved in the grisly scene.

So far, details remain very limited and detectives have not said anything about a possible motive for the killings.

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