Police say Virgil Brown, 56, died of knife wounds in a residence at 9200 Tedburn Circle, near the Cloverdale shopping center, shortly before 4 a.m. today. Police quote witnesses as saying the man had been fighting with another resident of the house who’d left the scene. Brown was stabbed in the head, chest, stomach, arms and back. Police have arrested Kenneth Ray McFadden, 34, in the slaying.

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