A man suspected of stabbing both of his parents fled a Woodland Hills home before police arrived, and the Los Angeles Police Department is now asking the public for help locating him.

Officers from LAPD’s Valley Bureau responded to the residence in the western San Fernando Valley after the couple was discovered with stab wounds. Both victims were taken to a hospital. The suspect, the couple’s son, was gone by the time patrol units got there, and he hadn’t been found as of April 9, 2026.

“We need the community’s help on this one,” said an LAPD spokesperson, asking anyone with information about the suspect’s whereabouts to contact the department directly.

The victims’ conditions weren’t publicly confirmed as of Thursday morning. Detectives are treating this as a targeted domestic violence incident, not a random attack. The department has held back the names of the victims and the suspect, citing the ongoing investigation.

Domestic calls don’t always look like what they are from the outside. They’re among the most dangerous situations officers walk into, and when a suspect has already cleared the scene, the urgency doesn’t drop. It climbs.

So why is California Bud covering it?

Woodland Hills sits inside a stretch of Los Angeles that’s seen repeated overlap between residential addresses and unlicensed cannabis activity. Law enforcement sources have told California Bud over the past year that domestic calls to addresses flagged in DCC complaint databases, or near known unlicensed grows, can mask conflicts that grew out of cash-heavy, unregulated arrangements. That’s not a claim tied to this specific incident. The department hasn’t connected this stabbing to any cannabis operation. But the pattern is real enough that reporters covering enforcement in California’s gray market take notice when serious violence breaks out in corridors where that activity has been documented.

The San Fernando Valley, covering communities like Woodland Hills, Canoga Park, and West Hills, has been the target of multiple Department of Cannabis Control sweeps over the past two years. Those enforcement actions focused on unlicensed retail storefronts and delivery services running out of private homes. The DCC has authority to refer residential addresses to local agencies when complaints pile up, and Valley Bureau has worked several of those referrals. None of that background changes what happened on April 9. A couple got stabbed, allegedly by their own son. That’s the core of it.

What the background does is explain why this neighborhood keeps showing up in conversations about public safety and regulation at the same time. West Hills, Canoga Park, Woodland Hills, they’re not high-crime areas by most metrics. But they’ve had enough documented gray-market activity that enforcement agencies treat them differently than they treat, say, a quiet suburb with no cannabis complaint history at all. When a violent domestic incident happens in that context, it’s worth asking whether investigators are looking at anything beyond the family relationship itself.

LAPD hasn’t said whether the suspect has a prior criminal record. The department also hasn’t indicated a specific motive beyond the domestic relationship between the parties. Detectives from Valley Bureau’s major crimes unit are leading the case.

California Bud reached out to LAPD’s media relations office for additional comment. According to LA Times reporting on the incident, the attack occurred at the couple’s home, and the son was considered the sole suspect as of the paper’s publication time.

No arrests as of Thursday, April 24 hours after officers first responded. The suspect’s location remains unknown.