Son confesses to killing his mother in Garden Grove, police say
The son of a 62-year-old woman found stabbed to death in Garden Grove on Tuesday admitted to killing her, and was arrested Thursday, Aug. 8, police said.
The incident is not related to a series of stabbings that happened the same day in Garden Grove and Santa Ana.
Jonathan Warner, 28, of Garden Grove, had been named as a person of interest in the presumed homicide of his mother, Vivian Wolff, Garden Grove Police said in a statement. A resident spotted him near the intersection of 9th and College Streets and notified officers, who responded at about 1:45 p.m.
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When police made contact with Warner, he allegedly assaulted an officer and fled on foot, according to the statement. He was arrested after a brief pursuit, and transported to the Garden Grove Police Department, where he was interviewed by detectives, police said. The person-of-interest became a suspect after he confessed to killing his mother, and was taken to the Orange County Jail.
Warner had been sharing a rented room with Wolff in a condominium on the 14000 block of Flower Street. It’s where the victim was found dead by friends who had grown concerned after not seeing her for a while, Garden Grove Police Lt. Carl Whitney said.