A 20-year-old man was killed and a 17-year-old boy seriously wounded in an apparently gang-related knife fight Tuesday night in El Cajon, police reported.
Patrol officers responding to a report of a fight in the 700 block of East Park Avenue at 7:38 p.m. arrived to find all the combatants gone, according to police. They then found the younger victim in an apartment in the neighborhood. Medics took him to a hospital for treatment of serious injuries, Lt. Rob Ransweiler said.
A citizen drove the other victim to a trauma center, but by the time they arrived, the young man was dead. His name was withheld pending family notification.
“Early indication is that the crime is gang-related,” Ransweiler said.
Officials withheld the name of the deceased pending notification of his family.
