{"id":399972,"date":"2026-07-15T23:28:40","date_gmt":"2026-07-15T23:28:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/399972\/"},"modified":"2026-07-15T23:28:40","modified_gmt":"2026-07-15T23:28:40","slug":"mcclatchy-stabbing-update-suspect-arrested-identified-by-sacramento-police","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/399972\/","title":{"rendered":"McClatchy stabbing update: Suspect arrested, identified by Sacramento police"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">(FOX40.COM) \u2014 A suspect was arrested in connection with the stabbing at McClatchy Park early Tuesday morning, the Sacramento Police Department said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Just before 12:30 a.m. Tuesday, <a data-ylk=\"slk:officers responded to reports of an assault;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas;_E:mb_qualified_link;ct:story;outcm:mb_qualified_link;\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;link&quot;,&quot;yLinkElementType&quot;:&quot;article_link&quot;}\" href=\"https:\/\/www.yahoo.com\/news\/articles\/deadly-stabbing-under-investigation-mcclatchy-125250050.html\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">officers responded to reports of an assault<\/a> in the 3500 block of 5th Avenue in Oak Park, where they found a man with at least one stab wound. The man later died at the scene, the police department said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The victim&#8217;s identity will be released by the Sacramento County Coroner&#8217;s Office after next-of-kin are notified, Sac PD said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Officers arrested the suspect, 21-year-old Maximus Morgan of Sacramento, and booked him into the Sacramento County Main Jail Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Morgan faces a felony murder charge and is not eligible for bail, according to jail records. His next court date is scheduled for July 16 at 1:30 p.m.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Sac PD is offering a reward of $1,000 to any witnesses with information relevant to the investigation into the stabbing. Witnesses can call the dispatch center at 916-808-5471 or the Sacramento Valley Crime Stoppers line at 916-443-4357. Callers remain anonymous, the department said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Copyright 2026 Nexstar Media, Inc. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\"><a data-ylk=\"slk:For the latest news, weather, sports, and streaming video, head to FOX40 News.;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas;\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;link&quot;,&quot;yLinkElementType&quot;:&quot;article_link&quot;}\" href=\"https:\/\/fox40.com\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">\u00a0For the latest news, weather, sports, and streaming video, head to FOX40 News.\u00a0<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"(FOX40.COM) \u2014 A suspect was arrested in connection with the stabbing at McClatchy Park early Tuesday morning, the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":399973,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[160534,159816,121,73587,123,122,9113],"class_list":["post-399972","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sacramento","tag-maximus-morgan","tag-mcclatchy-park","tag-sacramento","tag-sacramento-county-coroners-office","tag-sacramento-headlines","tag-sacramento-news","tag-sacramento-police-department"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/399972","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=399972"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/399972\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/399973"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=399972"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=399972"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=399972"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}