Chula Vista
A Chula Vista man was arrested this week in the February stabbing death of a 16-year-old South Bay youth, police said Friday.
Michael James, 21, who lives in the 200 block of Sea Vale Street, was taken into custody by San Diego police as he was leaving a temporary-work center in the 200 block of West Broadway in San Diego, police and jail officials said.
James is suspected in the stabbing death of Oscar Flores, 16, of San Ysidro during a gang-related confrontation Feb. 23 on Palm Avenue in San Diego, police said.
Flores died the same night at UC San Diego Medical Center.
James is being held on $250,000 bail at County Jail downtown on a murder charge, a jail spokeswoman said. His next court date is May 6.
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