Peninsula Man Arrested In Connection With 2017 Cold Case Murder

FRESNO COUNTY, CA — A Peninsula man was arrested earlier this week in connection with a 2017 cold case murder, San José police said.

Keith Dupree, 36 of East Palo Alto, was arrested on suspicion of homicide Saturday in Selma (Fresno County), police said.

He is the suspect in the 2017 fatal stabbing of Samuel Choi, a 63-year-old San José man, police said.

Officers at around 9:15 a.m. June 10, 2017, responded to the 1700 block of Everglade Avenue on a report of a stabbing, police said.

An adult male victim, later identified as Choi, was found suffering from at least one stab wound and was taken to a local hospital for treatment, police said. Choi died at the hospital the next day.

No suspects were identified at the time of the incident, but homicide detectives revisited the case in September after new evidence surfaced linking Dupree to the crime, police said.

Detectives on the basis of the new evidence obtained an arrest warrant for Dupree, a transient whose whereabouts were unknown to authorities, police said.

Dupree was arrested in Selma on the warrant by local authorities responding to an unrelated call for service, police said.

He was subsequently transported back to San José and booked into the Santa Clara County Main Jail on the homicide charges, police said.

Anyone with information about this case is asked to contact Detective Sergeant Barragan #4106 or Detective Ramirez #4201 of the San José Police Department’s Homicide Unit via email: 4106@sanjoseca.gov and/or 4201@sanjoseca.gov or at 408-277-5283.

Tips can also be submitted anonymously by using the P3TIPS mobile app, calling the tip line at (408) 947-STOP, or on www.svcrimestoppers.org.

Anyone who submits information that leads to an arrest is eligible for a cash reward from the Silicon Valley Crime Stoppers Program.