San Diego, CA: Serra Mesa man sought in fatal stabbing of wife

BY DEBBI BAKER, UNION-TRIBUNE
HAILEY PERSINGER, UNION-TRIBUNE
ORIGINALLY PUBLISHED FEBRUARY 28, 2011 AT 8:01 A.M., UPDATED FEBRUARY 28, 2011 AT 5:55 P.M.


PHOTO BY HOWARD LIPIN
A San Diego police officer stands in front of a Serra Mesa home on Monette Drive where a woman was found stabbed to death Monday morning. Police are looking for her husband to question him.


Marquin Hendrix was last seen in the Linda Vista area driving a 2004 maroon Chrysler Crossfire with California license plate 5MFB596.

SAN DIEGO — San Diego police are looking for the 61-year-old husband of a woman found stabbed to death Monday morning inside the couple’s Serra Mesa house.

Marquin Anthony Hendrix is considered armed and dangerous, police said. He was last seen in the Linda Vista area driving a 2004 maroon Chrysler Crossfire with California license plate 5MFB596.

Officers went to the couple’s home on Monette Drive off Ronda Avenue just before 6 a.m. after Hendrix’s brother called police. They discovered the body of Caridad Hendrix, 51, in a bedroom, said homicide Sgt. Bryan Pendleton.

Police said that Marquin Hendrix had gone to his brother’s house and told him about the stabbing before fleeing.

Caridad Hendrix has four grown daughters in the San Diego area, Pendleton said. Marquin Hendrix was not their father, he said.

Two of the couple’s neighbors said they did not know the wife well but found the husband to be friendly.

Jeannie Williams, who has lived in the neighborhood for 24 years, said Marquin Hendrix had helped her with gardening projects.

“If I needed something moved, he would always do it for me,” Williams said. “We were neighbor friends.”

Laura Berlin lives two doors down from the couple’s home. She said Hendrix had been a friendly neighbor while working in his garage or walking his pitbull, Almond.

“I would never have thought in a million years,” she said of hearing that Hendrix was the suspect in his wife’s murder. “Marq just doesn’t seem like that kind of person.”

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