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On November 9, 1978, 39-year-old male victim David Martin Jones was fatally stabbed near the Los Angeles Central Library. The victim, whose ethnicity was not explicitly stated in available sources, was one of a string of individuals targeted in a series of brutal knife attacks that plagued the Skid Row area of Los Angeles during the fall of 1978 and early 1979. These murders were later attributed to a serial killer dubbed the “Skid Row Stabber.”

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