A domestic dispute turned deadly, resulting in the death of a 35-year-old man in Stockton, police said Thursday.
Officers responding to a report of an assault with a deadly weapon at 12:40 p.m. Tuesday found the man in the 1300 block of south California Street. The victim was taken a local hospital, where he died, authorities said. His name has not yet been released by the San Joaquin County Medical Examiner’s office.
No information on a suspect in the slaying has been divulged. Police said detectives are actively working the case.
Unlike so many of the homicides involving guns in Stockton over the past months, this one was different.
“This was not a shooting,” said Officer Omer Edhah, a police department spokesman. “It was a result of a battery during a domestic dispute. It is being classified as a homicide.”
Neither the nature of the dispute nor the deadly weapon mentioned in the initial call to police were released.
Edhah said the death marks the 19th homicide in the city this year, a decline from 26 killings last year during the same span.
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