Stabbing

Police in Exeter have iden­ti­fied the town’s first homi­cide vic­tim of the year as 41-year old Kelli Lopez Diaz. Author­i­ties were alerted to the crime after Diaz’s brother reported the appar­ent mur­der after he found his sis­ter stabbed to death inside her home on Tues­day morn­ing. Police say that Diaz lived alone and that her home was in a rel­a­tively safe neighborhood.But fam­ily mem­bers told inves­ti­ga­tors that Diaz was addicted to methamphetamine.