Alleged swordsman surrenders

KENT, Wash. — A 41-year-old man turned himself in to authorities Sunday morning in connection with a fatal stabbing, Kent Police said.

The man was being held in the Kent City Jail for investigation of homicide, said Officer Paul Petersen, a spokesman for Kent police.

A 54-year-old Kent man died Saturday after being stabbed in the abdomen with a sword, police said.

Police were called to the west hill of Kent at 7 p.m. and found a man lying on grass beside a street with a stab wound to his abdomen.

Medics took him to Harborview Medical Center in Seattle, where he was pronounced dead about an hour later. He had no identification.

Police said a witness saw two men fighting, and one man lunged at the other man with a 2-foot-long sword. The victim then collapsed; the suspect walked away toward Pacific Highway South.

Petersen said the man who surrendered directed Kent detectives to the location of the sword he said was used in the stabbing. The sword was held as evidence, Petersen said.

After a preliminary hearing scheduled for today, the case will be forwarded to the King County prosecutor’s office.

Police said Sunday that the two men knew each other.

The victim’s name was not released by the King County medical examiner’s office.