Metro train stabbing suspect turns himself in to police, charged with murder

A 19-year-old man has turned himself in in reference to the deadly stabbing of a Metro practice rider close to downtown Los Angeles, police officers introduced Thursday.

Police mentioned Carlos Carrillo-Martinez walked into the 77th Road police station early Thursday and admitted he was the particular person police had been in search of. The prior night, LAPD detectives had launched a photograph to the media of a person needed within the deadly stabbing of a Metro passenger Tuesday. Detectives described the suspect as a person sporting a black sweater with white lettering on the entrance, mild blue denims and black sneakers.

Carrillo-Martinez admitted that he was the particular person seen within the police flyer and was interviewed by detectives, authorities mentioned. He was arrested and booked on suspicion of homicide and is being held on $2-million bail.

On Tuesday, 27-year-old Jalil Sosa Illera was discovered close to the 2400 block of South Flower Road after law enforcement officials from the Newton police station obtained reviews of an assault with a lethal weapon round 3:45 p.m., the LAPD mentioned in a information launch. Paramedics arrived on the scene and took Illera to a hospital, the place he died from his accidents.

Investigators decided that Illera was stabbed a number of instances throughout an argument on a Metro practice earlier within the day.

“Police and emergency medical personnel instantly responded to the station and carried out life saving measures, nevertheless the sufferer sadly didn’t survive his accidents. Metro extends its condolences to the household and associates of the sufferer and is supporting the Los Angeles Police Division because it conducts an investigation,” Metro mentioned in an announcement.

Earlier advisories from the LAPD mentioned the sufferer walked house after the stabbing.

Murder investigators will current their case to the Los Angeles County district legal professional’s workplace after they full their investigation. The circumstances surrounding the motive of the stabbing are nonetheless unclear.