{"id":334125,"date":"2026-05-27T07:32:14","date_gmt":"2026-05-27T07:32:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/334125\/"},"modified":"2026-05-27T07:32:14","modified_gmt":"2026-05-27T07:32:14","slug":"19-year-old-stabbed-to-death-in-grocery-store-parking-lot-in-point-loma","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/334125\/","title":{"rendered":"19-year-old stabbed to death in grocery store parking lot in Point Loma"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/timesofsandiego.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/San-Diego-Police.jpg?ssl=1\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"780\" height=\"439\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/San-Diego-Police.jpg\" alt=\"San Diego Police cruiser patrol\" class=\"wp-image-118616\"  \/><\/a>A San Diego Police cruiser. Photo by Chris Stone<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">A 19-year-old man was killed early Tuesday after being stabbed in a grocery store parking lot in Point Loma neighborhood, and his older brother has been arrested in connection with the killing, authorities said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Officers responded just after midnight Monday to multiple reports of a stabbing in the Barons Market parking lot in the 4000 block of West Point Loma Boulevard, according to the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sandiego.gov\/police\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">San Diego Police Department<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Responding officers and medics found the unconscious victim and performed life-saving measures. He was rushed to a hospital, where he was pronounced dead. His name was withheld until family can be notified.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Investigators identified the suspect as the victim\u2019s 29-year-old brother, Charles Fluker. Officers arrested Fluker at his home in the 2700 block of Ulric Street at about 4:40 a.m. Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The department\u2019s Homicide Unit is leading the investigation. Fluker was expected to be booked into county jail on suspicion of homicide following an interview with detectives.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Authorities urged anyone with information about the fatal stabbing to call the SDPD Homicide Unit at 619-531-2293 or San Diego County Crime Stoppers at 888-580-8477.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A San Diego Police cruiser. Photo by Chris Stone A 19-year-old man was killed early Tuesday after being&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":65464,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[41136,134,3365,74,76,75,985,1878],"class_list":["post-334125","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-san-diego","tag-brothers","tag-homicide","tag-point-loma","tag-san-diego","tag-san-diego-headlines","tag-san-diego-news","tag-san-diego-police","tag-stabbing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/334125","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=334125"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/334125\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/65464"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=334125"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=334125"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=334125"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}