REMEMBER WHEN

A WOMAN was stabbed to death and a man critically injured in a domestic dispute at Southport.

Police crews rushed to an upmarket apartment block in Smith St shortly after 7pm following reports of a violent fight with knives.

The dispute involved the couple and their daughter who suffered minor injuries.

Emergency crews found the bloodied couple in their apartment. They were clinging to life with serious chest and abdominal injuries from stab wounds. Ambulance crews worked frantically on the pair but were unable to save the woman.

“Unfortunately, the woman went into cardiac arrest and died at the scene,” said an ambulance spokeswoman.

“Paramedics stabilised the man and he was transported to the Gold Coast Hospital in a critical condition.” He sustained a lacerated aorta.

The daughter, in her mid-20s, was treated at the apartment but not taken to hospital.

Acting Detective Inspector Marc Hogan, of Surfers Paradise CIB, said: “Tragically, there has been a domestic situation here and one female person has been located deceased.”

Police were still trying to determine the cause of the dispute and whether one person, or both, had inflicted the stab wounds.

“Police are interviewing possible witnesses,” said Det Insp Hogan.

He said police were hopeful of getting information from the man in hospital.

It was not known if the couple, which police described as middle-aged, were married.

The tragic incident turned the normally quiet street into a major crime scene.