>> Police asking for help in homicide investigation
Sheriff deputies were dispatched to the alleged stabbing outside Salem Beverage Market, 3440 Salem Ave., just before 10:30 p.m.
In a 911 recording obtained by this news organization, a person who described himself to dispatchers as the store’s security guard, said several women were fighting with weapons.
“There are multiple suspects out here. They’ve got hammers and knives,” the caller said. “One is a victim of a stab wound.”
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No one suffering from a stab wound or cuts has shown up at area hospitals, the sheriff’s office said, referring to the request from deputies that the hospitals be on alert for such a victim.
The caller also told dispatchers that the women, including the alleged stabbing victim, fled the scene in two separate vehicles.
Investigators on Tuesday night were reviewing surveillance videotape from the beverage store, but had not determined what led to the fight, the sheriff’s office said.
This is not the first time that there’s been violence at the business. In December 2018 a shooting there left one man dead.
Anthony Choice, 27, died and another man suffered life-threatening injuries after both men fired shots at each other inside the beverage store, police said.
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