A Murder Most Foul: Stabbing Victim Andre Fluker Is City's 17th Homicide of the Year

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A Friday afternoon argument at the Dalt Hotel in the Tenderloin resulted in a police call, Andre Fluker bleeding on the ground with multiple stab wounds, and his alleged attacker being arrested. Fluker, a 41-year-old black man of an "unknown city of residence" according to the San Francisco Medical Examiner, died en route to General Hospital.

Fluker is the city's 17th homicide victim of 2009 and the first since a pair of San Francisco men were killed on April 18 in separate incidents.


UPDATE, 1 p.m.: The identity of the suspect arrested for Fluker's murder is Mikel Harris, a 43-year-old San Francisco resident.