Man fatally stabbed at S.A. carnival
Man fatally stabbed at S.A. carnival
Associated Press
04/28/2008
SAN ANTONIO - A 19-year-old man was fatally stabbed at Fiesta Carnival after his family tried to stop him from attending the big San Antonio event after dark.Police said Robert Perales may have died in a gang fight late Friday night, as the carnival was closing.
Officers questioned some juveniles and released them Saturday but they remained suspects, said police spokesman Joe Rios.
Perales was a tile layer who lived on his own but remained close to his family, said relatives, who tried to talk him out of going to Fiesta Carnival the day before the fight.
"I told him, ‘Don't go at night, son.' There's nothing but trouble over there at night," said his father, also named Robert.
Fiesta Commission spokeswoman Anne Cannon said organizers regretted the loss of life. She said there are usually 100 to 150 arrests at the carnival for public intoxication, fighting and underage drinking. But she said major crimes are rare and the event, which draws up to 500,000 people over 12 days, has overall "been an extremely safe experience."
Police quelled several gang fights at the carnival last year, and a 15-year-old boy survived a stabbing in 2005. In 1999, an 8-year-old girl was abducted and killed by a carnival worker, and an 18-year-old man was shot and killed in 1994.
After 30 years near Market Square, the event was moved this year to an Alamodome parking lot.
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