Man dies after stabbing in Brooklyn Park Sunday

Brooklyn Park police are investigating a homicide after a man was found with what was initially described as “serious injuries.”

Officers found the man after they were called to Tessman Circle off of 84th Avenue North around 3:05 a.m. Sunday for a report of domestic violence.

The man, identified late Monday morning by the Hennepin County Medical Examiner’s Office as 40-year-old Ricardo Montreal Pates, died at an area hospital shortly before 4:30 a.m. Sunday.

According to police, the woman who called 911 early Sunday said she had been choked by her boyfriend, and she may have stabbed him.

Police say the woman who called 911 identified herself as Pates’ girlfriend and told them she reached for a knife and swung at Pates in defense of herself after she became afraid of going unconscious.

She said Pates was injured and then left the house. In addition, the woman told police she was holding her five-month-old child when Pates began choking her.

Although the case is still being investigated and Pate’s death is being classified as a homicide, police say the woman they spoke with wasn’t arrested at the scene.

Brooklyn Park police say Pates had previously been arrested for choking the woman, and there was history of domestic violence with both parties.