Man Killed In East County Stabbing ID'd

SAN DIEGO, CA – Authorities Friday publicly identified a Navy man who was fatally stabbed this week during a fight at his East County home.

Anderson Lopes, 24, was mortally wounded about 10:30 p.m. Tuesday during an altercation that also injured his wife in an unincorporated area just north of Interstate 8 and south of Lake Jennings, according to sheriff's officials. Medics took Lopes to a hospital, where he was pronounced dead, Lt. Rich Williams said.

Reports from the scene indicated that the woman was injured while trying break up a fight between her husband and a second man in their condominium in the 13800 block of Pinkard Way. The couple's child was in the home at the time but was not harmed.

Deputies arrested the suspected assailant, 26-year-old Dylan Edward Poston of San Diego, at the scene of the fatal fight. He was booked into county jail on suspicion of murder and was being held on $3 million bail.

Officials have disclosed no suspected motive for the violence.

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