SAN DIEGO (KGTV) – A suspect was arrested in connection with the stabbing death of a man inside an East Village apartment unit, San Diego Police announced Thursday.
SDPD officers were called to an apartment building in the 600 block of 14th Street just after 10:45 p.m. Wednesday after a man reported finding his roommate covered in blood and unresponsive.
Police said the 38-year-old male victim had multiple stab wounds to his head and upper body, and despite life-saving measures performed by medics, the man was pronounced dead at the scene.
Police added: “As officers cordoned off the crime scene, a female in another apartment flagged down officers from her window. She appeared frightened and passed notes to officers on the street below that her boyfriend was acting violent and strange.
Officers checked the welfare of the female at her apartment and located her boyfriend inside. The male had blood on his person and minor injuries that were consistent with being in some type of confrontation where a cutting or stabbing object was used.
That male was detained at the scene for a domestic violence-related investigation and as a person of interest in the homicide of the male in the apartment complex.”
Through their preliminary investigation, SDPD Homicide Unit detectives learned the victim was in his apartment when the suspect entered the unit through the unlocked or open front door and attacked him.
While the motive in the incident has not been determined, the attack “appears to be random and unprovoked,” according to police.
After speaking to witnesses and gathering other evidence, police said the man detained during the onset of the investigation -- identified as 25-year-old Maxwell Thomas Logan -- was arrested early Thursday morning and booked into San Diego County Jail on suspicion of murder and false imprisonment.
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.
