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Police in South Los Angeles are searching for a suspect connected to a fatal stabbing outside a liquor store. 

According to the Los Angeles Police Department, the stabbing occurred around 11:30 p.m. Friday night near Lucky Liquor on South Main Street in South L.A.’s Florence neighborhood. 

Responding officers found the male victim with a stab wound outside the store. He was transported to a nearby hospital where he later died. 

  • Man fatally stabbed outside of liquor store; suspect remains on the loose
    Surveillance footage shows the victim walking out of the store with a female friend moments before he was stabbed. (RMGNews)
  • Man fatally stabbed outside of liquor store; suspect remains on the loose
    Surveillance footage shows the victim walking out of the store with a female friend moments before he was stabbed. (RMGNews)
  • Man fatally stabbed outside of liquor store; suspect remains on the loose
    Surveillance footage shows the victim walking out of the store with a female friend moments before he was stabbed. (RMGNews)

Preliminary investigation revealed that the suspect and victim were involved in a confrontation that escalated into the fatal stabbing, police said. 

Surveillance footage shows the victim walking out of the store with a female friend moments before he was stabbed. 

The suspect has been described as a Hispanic man who appears to be in his 20s, LAPD said in a release early Saturday afternoon.

A motive for the stabbing has not been determined.