Authorities ID woman fatally stabbed over the weekend in St. Paul

A suspect in the city's first homicide of 2022 has been arrested.

January 10, 2022 at 10:06PM
Police were on the scene of a fatal stabbing Sunday in St. Paul. (St. Paul Police Department/The Minnesota Star Tribune)

Police on Monday released the identity of a woman who was fatally stabbed over the weekend in St. Paul.

Tina M. McCombs, 48, of St. Paul, was stabbed in the chest Sunday and found dead in an apartment in the 100 block of W. Larpenteur Avenue about 2:30 p.m., according to police.

Officers arrested a 38-year-old man in connection with the stabbing after they found him outside a home "a couple miles from the scene," a police statement read. The Star Tribune generally does not identify suspects until they are charged.

The stabbing marked St. Paul's first homicide of the year.

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