Central : GARDEN GROVE : 2 Suspects Sought After 2 Are Stabbed, 1 Fatally

Police are searching for two men in connection with the stabbing death of one man and the wounding of another who tried to break up a fight between a woman and her boyfriend Monday afternoon.

Police said the stabbings occurred about 3:45 p.m. after the woman called the victims on the telephone for help during an argument with her boyfriend at their mobile home in Meadowlark Mobile Estates, 12152 Trask Ave.

Jose Ramirez, 27, of Orange was stabbed in the neck and died at UCI Medical Center in Orange. Jose Rodriguez, 20, of Santa Ana was treated for a stab wound to an arm and released.

The victims had gone to help Rena Courette, 19. She had been arguing with her boyfriend, Miguel de Jesus Silva, 23, police said. Silva’s friend and neighbor, Keith Zavala, 19, came across the street to help Silva after Ramirez and Rodriguez joined the argument, police said.

Police said Zavala is suspected of stabbing the victims.

Silva and Zavala fled in Ramirez’s red 1981 Mustang, police said.

The stabbings disrupted what neighbors say is usually a peaceful mobile-home park. On Tuesday, bloodstains remained on the street outside Silva’s mobile home while neighbors sat on their porches surrounded by flowerpots.

“We’re very proud of not having troubles here. This is a damn shame,” said manager David E. Wilson. “They (Silva and Zavala) were nice kids. They were very polite and very nice. I never had a problem with them,” he said.