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Police ID Teen Stabbing Victim

17-Year-Old Stabbed In Stomach, Police Say

POSTED: 2:59 pm PDT October 9, 2008
UPDATED: 3:17 pm PDT October 9, 2008

The identity of the juvenile who died Wednesday night after being stabbed has been released.

Richard Leroy Martinez, 17, of Las Vegas, died shortly after reaching University Medical Center.

No cause of death has been released yet, but he was stabbed in the stomach after an argument with another teenager at about 2:30 p.m. Wednesday in the street near Torrey Pines Drive and U.S. 95, police said.

Police are searching for the stabber and do not yet know the motive.


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