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Tip Leads to Arrest in Pottstown Fatal Stabbing Minutes After $1,000 Reward Posted

Investigators have not released a motive.

Overview

  • Ryan Grace, 37, was arrested Thursday after a $1,000 reward drew a tip within about 15 minutes.
  • Prosecutors charged him with first-degree murder in the stabbing death of Shaquille Kare Nicholas, 33, inside a Walnut Street apartment on Wednesday, which the coroner ruled a homicide from a chest wound.
  • Surveillance video, cited in an affidavit, showed Grace running from the building holding a pointed, knife-like object.
  • A witness told police the men argued in a bedroom about a phone before Nicholas stumbled out bleeding from the chest.
  • Grace is held without bail at the Montgomery County Correctional Facility pending arraignment as investigators keep the motive and the men’s relationship under review.