ALLIANCE, Neb. (AP) – Western Nebraska police have identified the two people stabbed to death in Alliance but haven’t yet named the suspect.
Alliance Police Chief John Kiss said Sunday the victims were 22-year-old Catalina Chavez, of Alliance, and 42-year-old Mike Loutzenhiser, of Scottsbluff.
Kiss says officers found Chavez and Loutzenhiser dead inside a home on the east side of town on Saturday morning.
A third injured person who lived in the house was found still alive but critically wounded. That 25-year-old man was taken to local hospital before being flown to Denver. Kiss says that man is considered a person of interest in the stabbings, and was in stable condition Sunday.
Kiss says a juvenile was also in the home at the time of the stabbings.
Officials plan to conduct autopsies Monday.