CARBONDALE, Ill. (KFVS) - A Carbondale man was charged with first-degree murder in connection with a stabbing investigation.

Yoshiko L. Bradsfield, 60, was charged with first-degree murder and taken to the Jackson County Jail pending a detention hearing.

According to Carbondale police, they responded to the 500 block of East Birch Street around 11:53 p.m. on August 5 for a reported stabbing.

Police found the victim, 638-year-old Gary L. Starks, of Carbondale, in the road with multiple puncture wounds in his chest.

Officers saw a person running from the scene whom they later identified as the suspect.

Officers began life-saving measures on Starks while other responding officers caught the suspect, later identified as Bradfield.

Starks was taken to an area hospital, where he died from

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