Victim ID’d and suspect arrested in deadly DoCo stabbing. Police say homeless men knew each other

The Sacramento Police Department said Wednesday that detectives identified and arrested a suspect in a deadly stabbing Tuesday afternoon that took place in the main plaza of Downtown Commons, just outside of Golden 1 Center, and that the suspect and victim, both experiencing homelessness, knew each other.

The man, who later died at a hospital, was stabbed about 4:45 p.m. on the 400 block of K Street, as concertgoers were lining up to see contemporary Christian singer Lauren Daigle at Golden 1 Center. The incident occurred about 100 feet from the arena’s main entrance and was taped off as investigators worked at the scene overnight.

The Sacramento County Coroner’s Office identified the victim as Laronn Derose Wilson II, 22.

Officer Anthony Gamble, a spokesman with the Sacramento Police Department, said detectives through “relentless” work arrested Malik Kyre Wilson, 23, of Sacramento in connection to the homicide Wednesday night. He was arrested near Marconi Avenue and Calderwood Lane in Arden Arcade, police said. The location is sandwiched between the Town and Country Village shopping center and apartment complexes.

There is no familial relationship between the victim and suspect, Gamble said.

Police did not disclose a motive, saying the incident remained under investigation.

When asked if the stabbing was caught on video surveillance, Gamble said “any potential video that may exist will be submitted as evidence, so we will not be releasing it at this time.”

“Our goal is to protect the integrity of this investigation,” he told reporters.

Gamble said police “will continue to work closely with Downtown Commons staff, arena staff, Downtown Safety Partnership, Allied Security, and all of our local stakeholders” to bolster the safety of visitors to the entertainment complex.

Malik Wilson is scheduled to be arraigned Friday. He is being held without bail.

‘It was still daylight’

Families, shoppers and DoCo employees munching on lunch casually ambled around the main plaza Wednesday, just feet from where blood gushed out from the stabbed man.

Some visitors didn’t know about the fatal incident. Others expressed shock.

Beatrice Blake, 47, just missed the incident that unfolded outside Urban Outfitters as she walked back to her hotel. She said she didn’t expect such an incident to happen in a place like DoCo.

“I was surprised because it was still daylight and it is such a public” place, Blake said, who was in Sacramento for a work trip.

Sacramento native Kayla Toves-Vincilione, 35, recalled how the shopping center prior to what’s now known as DoCo also didn’t have a safe atmosphere before it was razed.

But, Toves-Vincilione said she would still frequent the shopping complex. She referenced feeling safe because of police officers who biked through the area Wednesday afternoon and having the ability to protect herself.

Several stabbings reported since early November

The man killed Tuesday is among 10 people reportedly attacked in a recent rash of seemingly unrelated stabbings throughout Sacramento County, including two victims stabbed last week inside a downtown Sacramento apartment building.

Sacramento police arrested a 27-year-old Sacramento man on suspicion of attempted murder in last Thursday’s stabbing at the apartment building in the 1000 block of 10th Street, between K and J streets.

The rash of stabbings started Nov. 2, when a homeless man reportedly stabbed another homeless man in the leg near Howe and Marconi avenues in Arden Arcade, according to the Sacramento County Sheriff’s Office. That same night, a man was hospitalized and another was taken into custody after a stabbing in the 8200 block of Winkler Way in south Sacramento.

The Police Department was called to a stabbing Nov. 3 near Second and K streets in Old Sacramento, where a man was wounded and taken to a hospital.

In the following days, the Sheriff’s Office was called to investigate four other stabbings.

On Nov. 7, a man was hospitalized after he was stabbed in the torso in the 3900 block of 48th Avenue in south Sacramento. Deputies were looking for two to three juvenile suspects. Later that night, a woman suffered a non-life-threatening stab wound to her arm in an incident in the 5500 block of Sky Parkway in south Sacramento.

Two other stabbings were reported the following night. The first was reported about 7:45 p.m. at the Circle D convenience store at 3040 Auburn Blvd., where a store employee was wounded in the upper chest.

The second stabbing on the night of Nov. 8 occurred at the Flamingo Banquet Hall in the 5700 block of Watt Avenue in North Highlands, where a man was stabbed in the head with a screwdriver during a melee outside the banquet hall.