SAN DIEGO (KGTV) – A man was arrested on suspicion of stabbing his younger brother to death at a Point Loma shopping center early Tuesday morning, according to the San Diego Police Department.
Just after midnight, officers were dispatched to The Marketplace at West Point Loma (in the 4000 block of West Point Loma Boulevard) following reports of an altercation involving two people in the parking lot in front of the Barons Market.
Officers arrived to find a man with stab wounds. The victim was taken to UC San Diego Medical Center in Hillcrest for treatment but died after arrival, police said.
The victim was described by police as a 19-year-old Black male.
Police identified the suspect in the incident as Charles Fluker, the victim’s 29-year-old brother. Officers located him at his home on Ulric Street at around 4:40 a.m. and arrested him on suspicion of murder.
Details on what led to the altercation were not immediately released.
Anyone with information on the case is asked to call the SDPD Homicide Unit at 619-531-2293 or Crime Stoppers at 888-580-8477.
