REDSTONE TOWNSHIP, Pa. — State police are investigating a deadly stabbing in Fayette County.
A man was stabbed just before midnight Wednesday outside a home on Hilltop Avenue in Redstone Township.
The victim was identified as 24-year-old Shawn Hriscisce.
State police said another person was taken to Uniontown Hospital for a stab wound to the arm. They were released and are cooperating with the investigation.
According to the criminal complaint, a man named Sylvester Conaway arrived at the house and got into an altercation with the people inside. He stabbed both people before leaving the scene.
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The complaint said Conaway talked with a friend in the car on the way to the house and said he was going to stab the victims.
Conaway later admitted to police that he stabbed the victims with a knife while being forced out of the house, the complaint said. He also admitted to throwing the knife out of the window of a car while fleeing the scene.
Conaway is charged with criminal homicide, aggravated assault and tampering with or fabricating physical evidence.
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