Little Rock police are investigating a homicide after a man was fatally stabbed Tuesday night.
Department spokesman Lt. Steve McClanahan said police were called shortly after 8 p.m. to an apartment in the 1100 block of East Eighth Street, where officers found a man with a stab wound to the chest.
The victim was taken to UAMS Medical Center, where he died, McClanahan said.
Officials said a person of interest was in custody Tuesday night.
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The death is the ninth homicide in Arkansas' capital city in 2017.
No further information was immediately available.
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Information for this article was contributed by Ryan Tarinelli of the Arkansas Democrat-Gazette.