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Woman stabbed to death in Cobbs Creek, granddaughter expected to be charged with murder, police say

The victim’s 15-year-old granddaughter was taken into custody, police said.

This rowhouse on the 300 block of South Cobbs Creek Parkway was the site of a fatal stabbing of a grandmother by her 15-year-old granddaughter early Wednesday, police said.
This rowhouse on the 300 block of South Cobbs Creek Parkway was the site of a fatal stabbing of a grandmother by her 15-year-old granddaughter early Wednesday, police said.Read moreAlejandro A. Alvarez / Staff Photographer

A 15-year-old girl stabbed her grandmother to death in Cobbs Creek early Wednesday morning, police said, and is expected to be charged with murder.

The girl was arrested early Wednesday morning after she killed her grandmother, Elsa Aberra Bein, 67, police said.

Police responded shortly after 2 a.m. to a home on the 300 block of Cobbs Creek Parkway and found Bein inside, police said. She had stab wounds in the abdomen and right hand and was pronounced dead at the scene.

The motive for the crime was unclear, police said. Officers recovered a weapon believed to have been used in the stabbing.