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Man arrested in deadly North Sacramento stabbing identified | Update

A man in his 20s was found stabbed to death inside a home in the 3400 block of Whitney Avenue just after 1 a.m. Wednesday.

Update:

SACRAMENTO, Calif. -- Police have identified the suspect arrested for a deadly stabbing in Sacramento early Wednesday morning as 45-year-old Garrick Correa.

According to investigators, Correa and a 22-year-old man at the home allegedly got into a verbal altercation that escalated to the deadly stabbing just after 1 a.m. The relationship between Correa and the victim is still under investigation.

Correa has been booked into the Sacramento County Main Jail for murder.

NEWS RELEASE UPDATE** HOMICIDE INVESTIGATION IN NORTH SACRAMENTO S... USPECT IN CUSTODY Homicide detectives arrested 45-year-old Garrick Correa (see attached photo) in the stabbing death of a 22-year-old male in the 3400 block of Whitney Avenue. Correa was booked into the Sacramento County Main Jail.

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One person was arrested in connection to a deadly stabbing at a home in Sacramento, early Wednesday morning.

Sacramento County Sheriff’s deputies were called out to the home near Whitney Avenue and E. Country Club Lane just after 1 a.m. According to investigators, a female caller reported that a man had been stabbed.

When deputies arrived, they said they found a man in his 20s dead at the scene with at least one stab wound. Another man at the home was arrested for the stabbing. He has not yet been identified and investigators did not say how the two knew each other, if at all.

No other suspects are believed to be involved in this incident.

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