Suspect in St. Paul stabbing death arrested

Police have announced the arrest of a suspect in the stabbing death of a man following an altercation on a Metro Transit bus.

Authorities say a brief verbal confrontation escalated as the two left the bus at a St. Paul intersection early Wednesday. Officers dispatched just after 1 a.m. found an unresponsive man and two other people. Twenty-five-year-old Desmond Deshawn Harper, of St. Paul, died at the scene.

A 38-year-old St. Paul man was later arrested. He has not yet been charged.

St. Paul Police are releasing few other details on the incident.

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