By Gary Meyer, TME

A Frazier Park deputy was dispatched to Neenach just after 4:30 p.m. on Thursday, April 15, to assist Los Angeles Sheriff’s Department (LASD) deputies with a murder suspect who had barricaded himself inside a car west of 300th Street West.

James Matthew Dorsey, 41 of Washington state, is suspected of fatally stabbing his estranged wife, Michelle Dorsey, at her Santa Clarita home in the early hours of Thursday morning.

Dorsey fled in his wife’s Chevy Malibu to the Neenach area, where a standoff ensued for…(please see below to view full stories and photographs)

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Above: CHP and Los Angeles Sheriff’s vehicles block the roadway leading to the scene where a murder suspect had barricaded himself in a car west of 300th Street West in Neenach on Thursday, April 15. Right: The Dorsey family, with James Matthew Dorsey and Michelle Dorsey, in a 2015 Facebook post.

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