BRIDGEPORT – Police on Saturday were investigating the city’s 18th homicide of the year, following a Friday afternoon stabbing in a house on Madison Avenue.
Police said the incident occurred at about 5:30 p.m., when a man identified as Oscar Barilla, an undocumented immigrant from El Salvador, was found in a first floor bedroom with stab wounds in his chest.
He was pronounced dead at the scene. Few details were available Saturday, but police said the landlord told them that Barillo lived in the apartment. Friends told police he was from El Salvador and did not have legal residency documents.
Police ask that anyone with information on the incident should call the Bridgeport Police Detective Bureau at 203-581-5201.