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Man dies following Thanksgiving day stabbing in Ventura

David von Diemar
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Detectives trying to unravel what led to death.

Thanksgiving morning got off to a tough start in Ventura, with a large fight which apparently led to a fatal stabbing.

Police were called to the 300 block of East Main Street just before 2 a.m. Thursday, by reports of a stabbing.

Officers arrived as a number of people were fleeing the scene. They found a 24-year-old man on the ground with a stab wound.

Paramedics were unable to save the man, who was pronounced dead at the scene. His name hasn't been released.

Lance Orozco has been News Director of KCLU since 2001, providing award-winning coverage of some of the biggest news events in the region, including the Thomas and Woolsey brush fires, the deadly Montecito debris flow, the Borderline Bar and Grill attack, and Ronald Reagan's funeral.