By Associated Press - Friday, April 22, 2016

WILMINGTON, N.C. (AP) - New Hanover County deputies are investigating a stabbing death in suburban Wilmington.

Sheriff’s Lt. Jerry Brewer tells local media outlets that deputies were called to a home about 2 a.m. Friday and found a man dead in a yard with a stab wound.

Brewer said the victim was identified as 39-year-old Benjamin Paul Privott.



No arrests have been made in the incident.

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