PHOENIX — A food truck operator is dead and police are looking for his killers after police say the man was attacked late Saturday night in west Phoenix.
Phoenix police say they were called to an area near 35th Avenue and Van Buren Street just after 11:30 p.m. for reports of a stabbing.
When officers arrived, they found a man with multiple stab wounds. The man was rushed to the hospital, but he died from his injuries.
Witnesses told police that multiple men arrived in a vehicle and attacked the man.
The victim, identified as 41-year-old Heriberto Acosta, was reportedly a food truck vendor and was cleaning up for the day when he was attacked.
A fight ensued between the men and the food truck employees, and Acosta was stabbed multiple times during the fight. Police say that nobody else suffered any serious injuries during this incident.
The men then got back in their vehicle and left the scene.
The motive for the attack is not yet known and the incident remains under investigation.
If you have any information about this attack, you are asked to call Phoenix police or Silent Witness at 480-WITNESS.
