Overview
- Police responded to multiple calls about an altercation in a business parking lot on East Travis Boulevard and found a man with stab wounds who was taken to a hospital and later died.
- Authorities identified the victim as 21-year-old Fairfield resident Nicholas Ortiz and are withholding additional family notifications out of respect for next of kin.
- Fairfield investigators say they used witness interviews, physical evidence and video from the scene to identify 23-year-old Fairfield resident Royshawn Brown as a suspect.
- Officers located and arrested the suspect without incident in the 1700 block of Sunset Avenue less than three hours after the initial call, and they also stopped a vehicle believed linked to the altercation during their response.
- The investigation is ongoing, police have not released a motive, and the department asked anyone with information to contact the Fairfield Police Investigations Division.