A 15-year-old girl was stabbed to death in a gang-related attack in Costa Mesa on Saturday, and a 31-year-old suspect was later arrested at his Anaheim home.
Around 12:30 p.m. on Aug. 9, authorities responded to multiple 911 calls of a stabbing on the 700 block of Shalimar Drive, a residential neighborhood. When police and paramedics arrived, they found a teenage girl lying on the ground outside with a life-threatening stab wound, Costa Mesa police said.
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Despite efforts to save her, the girl died from her injuries a few hours later.
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