Man Suspected Of Stabbing To Death A Man In Front Of His Young Child Arrested: SFPD

SAN FRANCISCO, CA — A killer who stabbed a man to death Wednesday in front of his child near a San Francisco elementary school has been taken into custody, the San Francisco Police Department announced Friday.

Police arrested 42-year-old Daniel Patrick Rodriguez Jr. in connection with Wednesday's stabbing death of 35-year-old Robert Paul Byrd II in the West Portal neighborhood. Shortly after 9 a.m. Friday, Rodriguez was "taken into custody and arrested for murder," the San Francisco Police Department announced.

Police said the arrest was made in Tuolumne County, located in Central California, east of the San Francisco Bay Area.

At 4:38 p.m. Wednesday, officers responded to a reported stabbing near Junipero Serra Boulevard and Ocean Avenue, in proximity to Commodore Sloat Elementary School. They found a man suffering from a stab wound. He was taken to a local hospital, where he succumbed to his injuries, police said.

Police had been searching for the killer, who fled the scene.

As ABC7 News first reported, numerous bystanders and witnesses called 9-1-1 to report that a person had been stabbed. One 911 operator recording revealed that a child was next to the man who was fatally stabbed.

"Witness calling it in says the victim had a child with him. Elementary school age. Child is safe and with the bystander," the dispatcher said on the recording.

The San Francisco Unified School District confirmed the stabbing took place off campus after school hours, ABC7 News reported.

Police have not publicly identified a motive in the slaying.

Anyone with information about the case is asked to call the SFPD tip line at 415-575-4444 or to send a tip by text message to TIP411 with "SFPD" at the start of the message.