The Boy Scouts of America could lift its longstanding ban on allowing gay adult leaders in the organization, NBC News reported.

The resolution was approved earlier this month by the Boy Scouts' national executive committee after former Defense Secretary Robert Gates, the organization's president, called on the Boy Scouts last month to "reflect" on the group's "adult leadership standards."

The change comes as the Boy Scouts' membership policy has come under increasing scrutiny and after a historic ballot in 2013, when the organization's 1,400-member council voted to allow gay youth to be members, but not adults.

One of the people shot in last week's rampage at a Lafayette, Louisiana, movie theater is a cousin of Rep. Charles Boustany, R-Louisiana, Boustany told NBC News on Sunday night.

Two people were killed and nine others were wounded Thursday night when the gunman, identified as John Houser, used a legally purchased handgun to fire more than a dozen shots in the audience of a screening at the Grand Theatre 16 before killing himself, officials said.

"I didn't know either of the victims who were killed," Boustany said Sunday night, but "I have a cousin who was in the theater with her husband."

President Barack Obama urged Ethiopia's leaders Monday to curb crackdowns on press freedom and political openness as he began a visit that human rights groups say legitimizes an oppressive government.

"When all voices are being heard, when people know they are being included in the political process, that makes a country more successful," Obama said during a news conference with Ethiopian Prime Minister Hailemariam Desalegn.

Obama's trip marks the first visit by a sitting U.S. president to Ethiopia, a fast-growing economy once defined by poverty and famine.

Later Monday, Obama was to convene a meeting with African leaders on the crisis in South Sudan. The world's newest nation has been gripped by violence as warring factions in the government fight for power.

"The conditions on the ground are getting much, much worse," Obama said. He said if a peace agreement isn't reached by an Aug. 17 deadline, the U.S. and its partners would have to "consider what other tools we have."

Options under consideration include deepening economic sanctions and an arms embargo.

Obama arrived in Ethiopia late Sunday following a stop in Kenya, the country of his father's birth. The crisis in South Sudan and the human rights challenges on his agenda punctured a trip that had otherwise been a celebratory visit of the first black U.S. president to Africa.

Despite Ethiopia's progress, there are deep concerns about political freedoms on the heels of May elections in which the ruling party won every seat in parliament.

Obama said he was frank in his discussions with Ethiopian leaders about the need to allow political opponents to operate freely. He also defended his decision to travel to the East African nation, comparing it to U.S. engagement with China, another nation with a poor human rights record.

"Nobody questions our need to engage with large countries where we may have differences on these issues," he said. "That's true with Africa as well."

Ethiopia's prime minister defended his country's commitment to democracy.

"Our commitment to democracy is real — not skin deep," he said. Asked about his country's jailing of journalists, he said his country needed "ethical journalism" and reporters that don't work with terrorist organizations.

Ethiopia is the world's second-worst jailer of journalists in Africa, after Eritrea, according to the Committee to Protect Journalists.

Ahead of Obama's arrival, the Ethiopian government released several journalists and bloggers it had been holding since April 2014 on charges of incitement and terrorism. Many others remain in detention.

Sarah Margon, the Washington director of the organization Human Rights Watch, said Obama's visit undermines the president's goals of good governance on the African continent.

"In many ways, I guess it's a reward," Margon said. "Ethiopia at this time doesn't deserve that."

Despite differences on human rights, the U.S. sees Ethiopia as an important partner in fighting terrorism in the region, particularly the Somalia-based al-Shabab network. Ethiopia shares intelligence with the U.S. and sent troops into Somalia to address instability there.

The al-Qaida-linked al-Shabab claimed credit for a suicide bomb at a luxury hotel in Somalia's capital Sunday that killed nine people and injured nearly two dozen more. The Jazeera Hotel was considered the most secure in Mogadishu and is frequented by diplomats, foreigners and visiting heads of state.

Obama said the attack was a reminder that "we have more work to do" in stemming terrorism in the region.

Ethiopia has also been an important U.S. partner in the effort to end South Sudan's civil war. The prime minister was among the leaders joining Obama in Monday's meeting on the crisis.

South Sudan was thrown into conflict in December 2013 by a clash between forces loyal to former Vice President Riek Machar, an ethnic Nuer, and President Salva Kiir, a Dinka. The fighting has spurred a humanitarian crisis, throwing the country into turmoil four years after its inception.

The U.S. was instrumental in backing South Sudan's bid for independence, which was overwhelmingly supported by the country's people.

A Chula Vista park reopened Saturday after more than 30 razor blades were found in the grass – some with the blade side facing up – in what police said appears to be an intentional act. Many who had events planned that day felt safer, they said. 

Officials temporarily closed Harvest Park at 1550 E. Palomar Street, right in the middle of a residential community, Friday to investigate the blades scattered in a large grass area commonly used for youth sports activities.

Park visitors expressed a mix of concern and confidence as they began their Saturdays there. 

"I feel confident; I even took a walk myself and double checked and everything looks good," said Chula Vista resident Juan Bustamante.

Bustamente said he still planed to hold his son's 14th birthday party at the park that day, and he was not alone.  

Chula Vista resident Iliana Renteria said she pulled out all the stops to make sure her baby's first birthday would be a blast.

But when she heard the blades were found Friday, she panicked.

"I've had this place booked for four months," Renteria said. "So I mean four months, just trying to get everything ready, and it's like the day before, 'Oh hey, there's razor blades,' and I was like, 'Oh great. What am I going to do?'"

When the park reopened Saturday, both Renteria and Bustamente said they felt a sense of security. 

"I feel relieved relaxed and ready to enjoy the day with my daughter for her birthday," Renteria said.

Friday's discovery is under investigation, and although it appears to be an isolated incident, police said parks and rec employees are checking other parks throughout the city for razor blades as a precaution.

Anyone with information should call the Chula Vista Police Department at (619) 691-5202 or (619) 691-5151.

Though no injuries have been reported as a result of the razor blades, police said they are investigating this case as a felony crime that comes with serious charges, should they find the culprit. This ranges from child endangerment to setting up a booby trap, possession of a deadly weapon and assault with a deadly weapon, should someone get hurt.

Other parks around San Diego have been the targets of similar crimes involving razor blades, including Bonita Cove Park, which has been hit several times since August 2013.

In May, police installed a security camera at that Mission Bay-area park in an effort to deter the unknown suspect responsible for intentionally planting razor blades there.

In the case of Bonita Cove Park, San Diego police have said the investigation is difficult because the incidents are often spread out, with months between each.

San Diego Police Department Lt. Scott Wahl said investigators do not know, at this point, if the cases at the two parks are in any way connected.
 

The two youngest children in U.S. history to be tried as adults for first-degree murder are scheduled to be released from prison, NBC News reported. 

In 1999, 12-year-old Curtis and 13-year-old Catherine Jones confessed to fatally shooting their father's live-in girlfriend. 

On Tuesday, after 16 years behind bars, Curtis is set to become a free man when he is released from a correctional facility in Central Florida. Catherine is scheduled to get out four days later from another prison over 200 miles away, records show. He is now 29. She is 30.

Little has been shared publicly about their experiences growing up in prison, but psychologists and former incarcerated youth told NBC News that what awaits them in the outside world as adults will be a sort of culture shock.

Republican presidential candidate Mike Huckabee, who has been vocal about his disapproval of the Iran nuclear deal, likened the accord to events of the Holocaust.

Calling the agreement "idiotic," the former governor of Arkansas told Breitbert News that President Obama will ultimately "take Israelis and march them to the door of the oven." Huckabee, known to invoke the genocide of Jews by Nazis in his debates, is an avid supporter of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.

The National Jewish Democratic Council called on members to denounce Huckabee's comments. Earlier this month, Congress began a 60-day review of the nuclear deal, which would curb Iran's nuclear in exchange for easing of the sanctions.
 

A New York City man has left his home in the south Bronx to fight ISIS on the front lines of Syria, NBC News reported. 

The 25-year-old single father, Robert Rose, is currently in his second tour with the "Lions of Rojava," a Kurdish militia known as YPG that has proven critical in pushing back ISIS in Syria.

"I've always wanted a chance to come and fight against terrorists," he told NBC News. 

Harboring a hatred for terrorists borne out of the 9/11 terrorist attacks, Rose said joining the militia, which is comprised of hundreds of foreign fighters, was the most feasible way to fight not only for the Kurds, but for his country as well.

Three people suffered life-threatening injuries after an early morning crash on Interstate 805 that partially closed down the freeway, officials said.

The crash happened shortly before 4 a.m. Sunday morning on Interstate 805 near La Jolla Village Drive, where the California Highway Patrol said four vehicles were overturned.

One person was trapped inside one of the cars at one point, CHP officials said. Four

As officers worked the scene, they shut down three lanes of the freeway, bringing the morning traffic to a crawl.

The patients were taken to Scripps La Jolla. 

There is no word yet on how the crash may have occurred or the status of the victims’ injuries.

Two people died after an early morning head-on crash on Wildcat Canyon Road near Barona Casino, officials said.

The crash happened at approximately 4:55 a.m. Sunday morning in Lakeside, the California Highway Patrol said.

Two cars were involved in a head-on crash, the CHP said. 

The CHP said the crash involved five people total. Two people in the Toyota Camry survived with major injuries. Two of the three people in the Saturn died. A passenger in the car survived with moderate injuries. 

Wildcat Canyon Road was closed in both directions as CHP officials worked on scene.

One car went over the guardrail and the other was overturned on its side, video from the scene shows. 

The cause of the crash remains under investigation. 

A Scripps Ranch pizza restaurant is offering a $1,000 reward for information leading to the arrest of a burglary suspect.

Pazzo's Pizzeria manager Bill Feather said an early morning burglary on Saturday, July 18 was the ninth burglary or attempted burglary since Nov. 2013. 

The most recent incident happened early Saturday morning on July 18, said Feather, when an unidentified suspect burglarized the Scripps Ranch restaurant on Scripps Trail road. 

"We are sick and tired of these attacks, and ask anyone with any sort of knowledge to come forward with information," Feather said. "We are a small business and attacks like this can be detrimental to the business’ profits for that day. We want to empahasize, there is no money on hand that is accessible overnight." 

The owners of the restaurant previously offered a $1,000 reward for any information leading to an arrest of a suspect for a series of burglaries between Nov. 2013 and July 2014.

The most recent attack marks the ninth attack since November 2013, Feather said. 

Anyone with information is asked to contact the San Diego Police Department at (858) 538-8000. 

Police have arrested a man accused of killing one victim and wounding another after a suspected roommate altercation. 

Calvin Glass Jr., 18, was arrested Sunday evening and charged with one count of murder and one count of attempted murder after he allegedly shot and killed one man and shot and wounded another.

The incident happened at approximately 2:10 p.m on the 3600 block of Barnard Drive in Oceanside, north of San Diego, where police said they responded to reports of shots fired and victims on the ground, Oceanside Police Lieutenant Matt Cole said.

When officers arrived, they found one man dead with at least one fatal wound and another suffering from a non-life threatening gunshot wound. The victim was later taken to a nearby trauma center, police said. Both victims were adult men over the age of 18, police said. 

Police said a witness on scene helped them find suspect Glass, who was taken into custody by Escondido Police officers at the Escondido Transit Center. 

Glass confessed to shooting both victims, Cole said, following his arrest. The victims' names are being withheld pending notification of the family. 

Oceanside Police Department's Crimes of Violence unit will continue the investigation. 

There was no further information immediately available. 

Check back for updates on this breaking news story. 

Firefighters worked to rescue a victim trapped inside an overturned car, prompting firefighters to close nearby lanes in Bay Ho as they worked to free the victim, officials said. 

The crash happened at approximately 1:48 p.m. Monday on Balboa Avenue and Moraga Avenue, San Diego Fire-Rescue officials said. 

Firefighters closed westbound lanes of Balboa Avenue as they worked at the site of the single vehicle crash. 

Police are on scene as well.

There was no further information immediately available. 

A new lawsuit against the city of San Diego alleges its business improvement districts are not run properly and the city is not being transparent about where taxpayer money is going.

Cory Briggs, an attorney for San Diegans for Open Government, is behind the lawsuit.

There are 18 business improvement districts (BIDs) in San Diego. A BID is a geographically defined area in which businesses are required to pay an additional tax to fund projects, events or improvements within the defined district.

According to Briggs, BIDs started off as a good way for businesses to fund things that go above and beyond what the City would normally provide for the community. “Small businesses coming together and saying, ‘Hey look, we want to charge ourselves a little bit of money and have that money as a pool to promote things that are unique to us,'" he said.

But Briggs said many of the BIDs in San Diego now have morphed into slush funds.

“You have these nonprofits that are run by just a few businesses in the community who control the budgets every year,” Briggs said.

Diane Faulds, a small business owner in Pacific Beach, agrees with Briggs. She said BIDs are unregulated and a way for the city to shift responsibility away from itself and onto the backs of small business owners.

“It’s another way of kicking the can down the road, or the responsibility down the road, to someone so that they can’t be liable for the problems that the businesses are clamoring for,” Faulds said.

The city of San Diego would not comment specifically about these allegations because of pending litigation. Calls and emails to the City Attorney’s Office were not returned. However, in a statement the city explained BID assessments, which total about $1.52 million a year from 15,000 businesses, are collected by the city treasurer at the same time and manner as the city business tax.

Without the city of San Diego paying for some of these services, Briggs said it frees up money in the city’s general fund. That is potentially a good thing, he said, if the city is transparent on how that excess taxpayer money is being spent.

“The city has simply taken these new taxes and used them to pay for the minimum that the public would normally pay. When you ask yourself, 'What happened to the money that would normally help us make those minimums, where did it go?’" Briggs said he doesn’t get a straight answer.

Briggs told NBC 7 he’s asked the city of San Diego where the excess money was spent, and the city hasn’t shown him any documentation on how they spent the money.

Sara Berns, the executive director of Pacific Beach’s BID, Discover PB, told NBC 7 in a statement that “BID assessment dollars make up only about 1/3 of our budget which we use to leverage more dollars to put back into the community.” See the City’s and Bern’s full statements below:

Read Berns’ full statement here:

"BID’s are managed by non-profits who’s missions varies from neighborhood to neighborhood. Speaking on behalf of Discover Pacific Beach we have a variety of programs that help to promote and improve our business community including, beautification, special events and promotions, and advocacy. BID assessment dollars make up only about 1/3 of our overall budget which we use to leverage more dollars to put back into the community. We support small businesses through newsletters, marketing, neighborhood brand identity and special events. We provide some beautification services above and beyond basic City services and consistent around community identity. Staff time is used to administer programs such as the PROW (public right of way) program and assist businesses in navigating permitting, financing and logistical resources. According to the attached report most BID members receive greater than a 5:1 return on investment to their annual assessments. Business Improvement Districts do not replace basic City services but provide special benefits to the members within the district that are above and beyond what the City provides."

Read the city of San Diego’s explanation of BIDs:

"The City of San Diego's BID program, the largest tenant-based program in the state of California. The program dates back to 1970 with the creation of the Downtown Improvement Area, California's first metropolitan downtown district. Since that time, the small business community and the City have created 18 active districts.

Please note that state law allows for BIDs to be formed and the City to levy and collect assessments on behalf of the BIDs that are formed for improvements and activities that benefit the assessed businesses. They provide business area merchants with the resources to develop marketing campaigns; increase awareness; and enhance public improvement projects in partnership with the City, facilitating business attraction and retention and commercial neighborhood revitalization. BID assessments are collected by the City Treasurer at the same time and in the same manner as the City's business tax; approximately $1.52 million annually from 15,000 businesses."

The governing body of the Boy Scouts of America voted Monday to end its decades-long ban on gay scout leaders, NBC News reported.

The organization's national executive board, meeting in Texas, concluded that the policy of excluding gay adults "was no longer legally defensible." The decision was approved by 79 percent of the board.

"This change allows Scouting's members and parents to select local units, chartered by organizations with similar beliefs, that best meet the needs of their families," said a statement from the Scouts' leadership.

While many veterans have returned home from Iraq and Afghanistan to open arms, one group of four-legged service members is still in search of a warm welcome.

Roughly a year and a half after returning from war, one K-9 unit made up of 12 dogs is looking for new homes, according NBC affiliate WWBT.

“They've been abandoned,” Mount Hope Kennels owner Greg Meredith told WWBT. “This is not the life that they deserve, nor is it how this country should take care of its soldiers.”

Immediately after returning to the United States, the bomb-sniffing dogs were placed at Mount Hope Kennels to receive rehab for dealing with issues such as PTSD. However, the short visit stretched on as red tape persisted.

“It's the least that we can do to take care of them, because they've taken very good care of us, to protect our freedoms,” Meredith said, adding that the shelter has spent around $150,000 taking care of the dogs.

But now, the war heroes have renewed hope: Mission K9 Rescue and U.S. War Dogs will arrive to the shelter Monday and try to reconnect the dogs with their original owners. If the handlers cannot be found, the animals will be searching for families to adopt them and give them forever homes.

To apply to adopt any of the dogs, you must send in a notarized application from the Mission K9 website.  

In a ruling issued Monday, a San Diego judge dismissed a right-to-die lawsuit while stoking the debate regarding a piece of legislation stalled in the California legislature.

The lawsuit filed on behalf of three patients and a doctor claims California law authorizes the medical practice of aid in dying. San Diego Superior Court Judge Gregory Pollack dismissed the suit Monday by saying the court can not do what the legislature must.

"To the extent that Penal Code 401 unfairly blocks the wishes of certain persons affected by it, rather than this court nixing the law as unconstitutional, the legislature ought to be fixing the law so that the legitimate needs of terminally-ill patients and their physicians are recognized, respected and protected," Judge Pollack wrote.

He added that several states have already enacted statutes legalizing physician-assisted suicide under certain conditions.

The issue garnered national attention when 29-year-old Brittany Maynard moved from California to Oregon to legally end her life following a diagnosis of terminal brain cancer.

Her mother, Deborah Ziegler, lives in Carlsbad and recently told NBC 7 she is committed more than ever to fight for an individual's right to die.

Plaintiffs Christy Lynne Donorovich-O’Donnell of Santa Clarita and Elizabeth Wallner of Sacramento traveled to San Diego for Friday's hearing.

O'Donnell, 47, said she believes she will die from lung, brain, spine, rib, and liver cancer before this issue is resolved in California.

Wallner, 51, has stage IV colon cancer that has metastasized to her liver and lungs. Outside court, she said she was disappointed in the ruling but hoped to see the issue move forward.

The plaintiffs plan to appeal Pollack's ruling.

A bill stalled in an Assembly committee earlier this month, due in large part to opposition from religious organizations that say allowing doctors to prescribe life-ending drugs is assisted suicide and goes against God's will.

The Assembly Health Committee includes multiple Democratic lawmakers from heavily Catholic districts in the Los Angeles area, where the archdiocese actively opposed the legislation.

Firefighters are monitoring hot spots in the Cutca Fire burning in the Cleveland National Forest near Palomar Observatory.

The fire that broke out Friday afternoon has burned 167 acres in steep inaccessible terrain along a canyon about two miles north of the internationally known observatory.

Aircraft will continue to fly over the area as crews not only mop up but keep an eye on those hot spots.

Officials say they have achieved 50 percent containment. No structures were threatened as of Monday morning. Campgrounds remained open.

A U.S. Forest Service news release said cooler temps were expected Monday.

“In the fire area there is no previously recorded fire history, fuels remain critically dry due to drought conditions,” officials said in the written release.

Now that the U.S. Olympic Committee has dropped Boston’s bid for the 2024 Summer Games, Los Angeles is emerging as the back-up city.

“Los Angeles could bid with a couple of years notice,” said Andrew Zimbalist, a professor of economics at Smith College and the author of “Circus Maximus: The Economic Gamble Behind Hosting the Olympics and the World Cup.” “They don’t need seven years notice. They have almost all their venues already intact.”

In a statement Monday the committee's CEO, Scott Blackmun, said the federation was still interested in mounting a bid for the Summer Games. He did not mention a specific city.

Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti said that his office had not had recent conversations with the U.S. Olympic Committee.

"I continue to believe that Los Angeles is the ideal Olympic city and we have always supported the USOC in their effort to return the Games to the United States," he said in a statement. "I would be happy to engage in discussions with the USOC about how to present the strongest and most fiscally responsible bid on behalf of our city and nation."

The U.S. Olympic Commitee ended Boston's bid after Boston Mayor Marty Walsh said at a Monday morning press conference that he was not ready to sign a host city document that would force taxpayers to cover any cost overruns. The U.S. Olympic Committee had wanted him to sign the contract as soon as possible, he said. But he said he would not without more financial information about the Games and was willing to let the committee choose another city over Boston.

The host city contract, which does not need to be signed until 2017, guarantees that the International Olympic Committee will not be held responsible for any cost overruns.

The U.S. Olympic Committee’s board members had also wanted to know whether Massachusetts Gov. Charlie Baker supported Boston’s bid. Baker spoke to committee officials on Monday but said beforehand that he would have no answer for them because he was waiting to see a full report from a consultant commissioned to analyze the bid.

The deadline to officially submit bids to the International Olympic Committee is Sept. 15. San Francisco and Washington D.C. also competed to be the U.S. selection. A source told NBC Bay Area that it was now too late for San Francisco to submit a bid that could win. Jack Evans, a D.C. council member, said that the city was still vying to be chosen.

“We in the District would still be very interested," Evans said.

Officials from the U.S. Olympic Committee could not immediately be reached for comment.

Earlier Alan Abrahamson, a sportswriter, said that the U.S. Olympic Committee ought to kill Boston’s bid, Abrahamson, a journalism professor at the University of Southern California’s Annenberg School for Communication and Journalism, called it the most dismal effort he had seen in 16 years of covering the Olympics.

“Los Angeles is America’s Olympic city,” said Abrahamson, who wrote a column on the topic on his website, 3 Wire Sports. “It hosted the Games twice in 1932 and 1984. The Games are a part of the fabric of civic life in Los Angeles.”

Politicians, businesses and the people of California are behind the Olympics, he said. And like Zimbalist, he said Los Angeles could be ready with little notice.

“Los Angeles could host the Games on maybe two years notice and do a fantastic job,” he said.

Before Boston's bid derailed, Zimbalist said that Baker’s position was key because the state not Boston would have to be the Games’ guarantor.

“Nobody ever expected Boston to actually provide a guarantee,” he said. “They don’t have the resources to do it. Their budget is much too small.”

Zimbalist said that he thought Walsh, who had been closely affiliated with the pro-Olympics group, was trying to cover himself should the U.S. Olympic Committee reject Boston.

“I think that he’s trying to step out in front of that train and say, ‘I was first, I never wanted to put the Boston’s taxpayers at risk,’” Zimbalist said.

Boston’s bid had been expected to go to a statewide referendum next year. The organizers had said that if the majority of voters in Massachusetts and Boston did not vote in favor of it they would pull the bid. A group, No Boston Olympics, had formed in opposition to hosting the Games.

The driver of a car involved in a double fatal crash Sunday morning had been drinking, doing shots and smoking marijuana before the crash, California Highway Patrol officials told NBC7. 

The crash happened at approximately 4:55 a.m. Sunday on Wildcat Canyon Road near Barona Casino in Lakeside, when two cars crashed head-on. 

The CHP said the crash involved five people total. The driver of the Toyota Camry, who is from El Cajon, was seriously injured and has been in and out of surgery all day, officials said. A passenger survived with major injuries. 

The 25-year-old driver of the Saturn and a 27-year-old front seat passenger, both from Spring Valley, were killed in the crash. A third passenger sitting in the back seat survived the crash with major injuries and was taken to the hospital. 

CHP officials said the driver swerved into the wrong lane after a night of drinking.

In the last year, NBC7 counted at least four other crashes on the same road. In most cases, the CHP said, accidents that have occurred on Wildcat Canyon Road were preventable.

"I wouldn't consider Wildcat Canyon Road a dangerous road, I would consider a lot of activities people are doing while on it dangerous," said Kevin Pearlstein, the public information officer for the CHP's El Cajon division. "Speeding, passing double yellows, playing on their phones, and drinking and driving or using drugs prior to driving."

The County recently added rumble strips and widened the lanes to make the road safer. 

The road was closed in both directions as CHP officials worked on scene.

CHP officials said the Saturn was heading to Barona Casino.

The crash remains under investigation. 

Chula Vista Police found a woman dead and a man injured in stabbings at an apartment complex Monday afternoon.

Just after 2 p.m., a man called 911 to request an ambulance at 565 Mc Intosh Street.

There, officers found a man in his early 30s with several stab wounds. He was conscious and talking at the time, though bleeding profusely, officials said.

A woman in her early 40s, who was also stabbed multiple times, was dead inside the unit. The man was taken to the hospital and is in stable condition after surgery.

Detectives with the CVPD have taken over the suspicious death investigation.

"It's a bloody scene inside," said Lt. Fritz Reber. "Both people suffered significant stab wounds." There are several knives in the apartment, he said, so they have not identified a specific murder weapon.

Officials believe the stabbings were a result of a struggle between the man and woman, so they say there are no outstanding suspects or victims.

The female victim has not been identified, but investigators believe she was in a relationship with the man.

"We do have a history of domestic violence at this location," said Reber. "In January, police responded and arrested the male who went to the hospital today for domestic violence." However, he did not have information on who the victim was in that case.

The couple's neighbor Melinda Desmond told NBC 7 she heard nothing Monday before police arrived. She said the two have been extremely quiet for some time.

"They never interacted with anybody," Desmond said. "They would stand out there, smoke cigarettes, and when they'd get done, they'd go right back in." 

If anything knows about this stabbing, you are asked to call the Chula Vista Police Department.