A father was fatally stabbed while walking his son home from school in San Francisco, and a suspect was arrested more than 130 miles away.

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The attack happened on Wednesday, Sept. 10, near Commodore Sloat Elementary School in the Balboa Terrace neighborhood.

Robert Paul Byrd II, 35, had picked up his 8-year-old son at the school shortly before 5 p.m. The two were walking, holding hands, in a crosswalk at Junipero Serra Boulevard and Ocean Avenue when Byrd was stabbed by a man with whom he’d had “an altercation,” according to police.

Byrd died of his injuries at a hospital. The attacker fled before police arrived.

Paul Yep, interim chief of the San Francisco Police Department, said about 60 officers were deployed to investigate the case. They interviewed witnesses and u

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