Monson Afualo, 18

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Monson Afualo, an 18-year-old young man of Samoan descent, was stabbed in the abdomen at 1312 Hellman St. in Long Beach, and died at 1:55 a.m. Wednesday, Aug. 18.

He was in the back of their house. An acquaintance with whom he had quarreled previously was hiding in the bushes. He jumped out and attacked Afualo with a knife, said his older sister, Cheryl Ulugia. ‘I got there and he wasn’t moving,’ she said. ‘I was calling the police, and at the same time, I was using the light from my phone to see him and where he was hurt, and he wasn’t moving.’ Police arrived and found the suspect nearby, and arrested him, she said.

Afualo had come from American Samoa with his siblings in the early 1990s, attended high school in Orange County, then quit to work in construction to help support the siblings’ late grandmother, their one-time caretaker, the sister said. As a youngster he loved skateboards, she said. As he grew older, his family was his chief concern, she said.