By Associated Press - Thursday, February 20, 2020

HEMET, Calif. (AP) - Two people were arrested Thursday on suspicion of killing three women were found dead inside a Southern California house, police said.

A report of a woman laying in a pool of blood sent officers to the home Wednesday night in Hemet, about 70 miles southeast of Los Angeles.

They victims were identified Thursday as Trinity Clyde, 18, Wendy Lopez-Araiza, 46 and her daughter, Genesis Lopez-Araiza, 21.

Details of how and when they died were not immediately released.

However, Hemet police said two people had been arrested by Thursday afternoon and could face murder charges. Their names were not immediately released.

No other suspects were being sought.

There was no immediate word on a motive.

Rodney Clyde told KNBC-TV that his daughter, Trinity, had planned to rent a room at the home on Rabbit Peak Way.

“I just bought her paint yesterday,” he said. “That was my baby. That was my kid.”

Hemet is a city of about 85,000 residents in the San Jacinto Valley area of Riverside County.

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