Man pleads not guilty to double murder charges in stabbings

A man accused of stabbing three people, two of them fatally, early Sunday in the Jamacha-Lomita area of San Diego pleaded not guilty Wednesday to murder and assault charges.

Michael Rodney Major, 38, is accused in the stabbing deaths of two men, which police said occurred around 2:40 a.m. during an altercation at a house party on Carlsbad Street near Innsdale Avenue.

Jeffrey Moore, a 34-year-old San Diego man, died at the home, San Diego police homicide Lt. Jud Campbell said in a news release. Edward Robbins, a 36-year-old San Diego man, was taken by paramedics to a hospital, where he died.

Paramedics also took a 24-year-old woman to a hospital for treatment of injuries that were not considered life threatening, Campbell said.

Few new details of the incident were disclosed during Major’s arraignment Wednesday afternoon on charges of murder and assault with a deadly weapon, but Deputy District Attorney Kristie Nikoletich said the suspect and three victims were known to one another. The criminal complaint alleges Major committed the stabbings while on parole from state prison.

Footage from OnScene TV showed the injured woman appeared to sustain a wound to her left forearm. The footage showed a chaotic scene outside the home as San Diego police, sheriff ’s deputies from nearby Spring Valley and paramedics attempted to treat victims and sort out the events that had unfolded.

Major was hurt during the fight and was treated at a hospital before being booked into jail Sunday evening. He remained in custody Wednesday without bail at the San Diego Central Jail.