Crime & Safety
Hercules Man Arrested In Fatal Stabbing At Hardware Store
Authorities say the 34-year-old suspect killed an employee at a store in El Sobrante
Bay City News Service
A Hercules man was arrested Sunday in connection with the fatal stabbing of an El Sobrante hardware store employee, according to the Contra Costa County Sheriff's Office.
Deputies were called to Oliver's Ace Hardware on the 4000 block of San Pablo Road around 9 a.m. after receiving a report of a robbery in progress, said sheriff's office spokesman Jimmy Lee.
They found the victim, a 49-year-old man whose identity has not yet been released, in the parking lot with stabbing wounds to his upper body, Lee said.
He was taken to John Muir Medical Center in Walnut Creek, where he was pronounced dead shortly after 11 a.m.
Deputies searched the area and arrested Hercules resident Daymond
Agnew, 34, inside a nearby home. He was booked into Contra Costa County jail on suspicion of murder. He is being held in lieu of $1 million bail, Lee said.
The motive in the attack remains under investigation.
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