June 15--A 49-year-old man was fatally stabbed during a fight in the Uptown neighborhood Sunday night.
Police were called about 9:45 p.m. to the 4400 block of Broadway. Two men got into an argument at a bus stop in front of the Target store, police said.
One man grabbed a stick as the fight turned physical, and the other man stabbed him in the neck with a knife. The knife hit an artery, police said.
The man was taken to Advocate Illinois Masonic Medical Center, where he was pronounced dead at 10:17 p.m. He was later identified as Thomas Sawyer, of the 4600 block of Broadway, according to the Cook County medical examiner's office. According to an autopsy Monday, Sawyer died of a stab wound to the neck and his death as ruled a homicide.
A 58-year-old man was taken into custody, and as of early Monday, no criminal charges had been filed.
After the incident, police taped off Broadway from Montrose Avenue to Sunnyside Avenue as detectives investigated. Some passers-by watched as an evidence technician took photographs of items scattered near the bus stop.
In a Twitter post Sunday night, Ald. James Cappleman, 46th, said the men had been fighting over selling socks before the stabbing.
