SPRINGFIELD (AP) - Springfield police say a 29-year-old man has been
charged in an early morning fatal stabbing that may have been drug-related.
Police said Edwin Santiago was arrested Tuesday at Baystate Medical Center,
where he had gone for treatment of a head injury. He was charged with murder in
the death of 38-year-old Sadeeq Khalid Allah.
A department spokesman says officers responded to a home in the city's North
End at about 4:30 a.m. where they found Allah in the back yard suffering from a
stab wound under his arm. He was pronounced dead later at a hospital.
Police think the two men knew each other and got into a fight.
Santiago is to be arraigned Wednesday. It is not immediately known who is
representing him.
The slaying was the ninth homicide in Springfield this year.
