Deputies Seek Information in Stabbing Death of Man, 36
Authorities still had no clues Monday in the stabbing death of a Lancaster man on a local street early Saturday, a detective said.
“We don’t have any witnesses,” said Detective Judy Gibson, a Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department investigator working on the slaying of John Brown Avila, 36. No motive has been uncovered, she said.
Authorities Monday began circulating his picture on flyers, asking anyone with information to come forward.
Avila was last seen early Saturday leaving the Buffalo Club on Division Street in Lancaster. He was later spotted by a passing motorist after 2 a.m., lying in a gutter in the 4400 block of 3rd Street, stabbed several times in the upper torso.
Gibson said deputies are distributing flyers at the Buffalo Club, a restaurant with a bar, and at the Circle K in Lancaster, where Avila was a clerk.
Anyone with information is asked to call Gibson or Detective Robert Taylor at (213) 890-5500.
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