BY RICHARD BROOKS
STAFF WRITER
rbrooks@pe.com
Past incidents of domestic violence preceded this weekend's fatal stabbing of a 38-year-old Riverside woman in front of her three children, a crime that led to the arrest of her husband, homicide detectives say.
Bernardino Leyva Mendez was arrested at 7:53 a.m. Saturday at the family home in the 6600 block of Chadbourne Avenue and booked for investigation of murder and the personal use of a weapon, jail records show. Mendez's bail is set at $1,005,000.
"He had made threats to kills his wife if she ever left him," Sgt. David Amador said Monday. "And she was in the process of leaving him, according to the kids."
Coroner's officials have not released the name of the victim, who died at Parkview Community Hospital less than an hour after the 7:45 a.m. attack in the city's La Sierra Acres area.
The couple's children are ages 15, 13 and 6.
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