Tuan Nguyen, Stabbed to Death in Tenderloin, Is S.F. Homicide No. 6. Lawon Hall, Gunned Down Near Fisherman's Wharf, Is No. 7.

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The San Francisco Medical Examiner moments ago identified Tuan Nguyen, 36, as the man stabbed to death yesterday morning in an apartment at Ellis and Hyde.

Phuck Van Lee, a blood-soaked man who flagged down police and directed them to Nguyen's apartment, was questioned and later arrested. Van Lee was booked for homicide yesterday, according to police spokesman Sergeant Wilfred Williams.

Nguyen is the city's seventh homicide of the year, and first since Xiao "Ben" Xiong Luo was shot to death in a bizarre home-invasion in the Outer Sunset on Jan. 27.

Update, 9:45 a.m.: Sadly, the city's next homicide victim came a scant 24 hours after Nguyen. An "altercation" at 383 Bay Street at 1:45 Sunday morning led to shots being fired into a crowd, and 19-year-old Richmond resident Lawon Hall was killed. At least one other person on the scene was gravely injured. According to Williams, a Patrol Special police officer was on the scene and witnessed the incident. He is believed to have returned fire, striking the suspected gunman, who has been arrested.

Williams said the SFPD is searching for more witnesses and urges them to call the anonymous tip line at (415) 575 4444 or use text-a-tip: TIP411 and enter SFPD.


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