Donation request ends in stabbing
09:30 AM PST on Wednesday, January 6, 2010
After soliciting donations yesterday at shopping centers in Murrieta and Temecula, two men got into a fight that left one of them stabbed to death and the other jailed, according to Murrieta police.
The victim was helping to collect money for United Restoration Ministries of Santa Ana, Sgt. Jim Ganely said in a written statement. The man's name is being withheld pending notification of relatives.
Jailed for investigation of murder is 50-year-old Concepcion Laboy of Chino. Bail is set at $1 million.
The violence erupted at 5:28 p.m. Tuesday in a white van outside the Big Lots store along the 25200 block of Madison Avenue. When officers arrived, two men and a woman were near the crashed van. And the victim was slumped over the wheel with a knife protruding from his neck.
"Three subjects were in the Temecula/Murrieta area pan-handling donations to their ministries at local shopping centers," according to the statement. "The driver of the white van returned to the Big Lots parking lot and picked up ... Laboy."
That's when the fight broke out.
Laboy told officers he killed the driver, and witnesses confirmed his statements, Ganley wrote.
The driver had several large cuts on his face and neck and many knife wounds elsewhere. The reason for the argument hasn't been disclosed.
--Richard Brooks
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