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.
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.