SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) - A battalion chief with California’s forestry and fire protection agency was being sought Thursday in connection with the fatal stabbing of a Sacramento-area woman.
Sacramento County Sheriff’s Sgt. Lisa Bowman the man, Orville Fleming, 55, a battalion chief with the California Department of Forestry and Fire Protection, also lived at the home in Elk Grove.
Investigators found the victim after they received a report at about 9 a.m. of a dead woman in a house on the 9300 block of Fox River Way.
The victim’s identity has not been released pending official notification of her next of kin.
Cal Fire confirmed late Thursday night that Fleming’s car, a 2007 white Chevrolet pickup, had been found unoccupied in Elk Grove.
Authorities believe that Fleming has left Sacramento and may have ties to the Fresno and Clovis areas as well as other parts of California.
He is also an instructor at a Cal Fire academy in Ione, California.
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