Man Fatally Stabbed Near Anaheim

Man Fatally Stabbed Near Anaheim
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City News Service
7/20/2023
Updated:
7/20/2023
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A 52-year-old Yorba Linda man was charged on July 20 with fatally stabbing another man in unincorporated Anaheim.

Effrum Maland Burnett was charged with murder with a sentencing enhancement for the personal use of a deadly weapon.

The name of the victim—a 50-year-old Anaheim man—was not yet released by Orange County Sheriff’s Department officials.

Deputies were dispatched at 3:41 p.m. on July 18 to the 9000 block of Canton Avenue regarding the stabbing, deputies said. When deputies arrived they found the victim and rushed to him to a local hospital, where he was pronounced dead.

Mr. Burnett was arrested at around 1 a.m. on July 19.