Fatal Stabbing in Springfield

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Franconia Police District- Our Major Crimes Bureau and Crime Scene Section detectives continue to investigate the circumstances surrounding the stabbing death of a woman in Springfield this morning at the Hilton Hotel at 6550 Loisdale Road. Officers responded at 3 a.m. for a call for help. When officers arrived, they found a man in a room with injuries to his upper body and Toni Newkirk, 55, of Louisiana, dead as a result of the stabbing. The man was taken to a nearby hospital with serious injuries but is now stable.

Newkirk and the man are known to each other and there is no threat to the public safety.   

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