Arrest in the murder of the murder of food truck dealers that was attacked in West Phoenix

Phoenix – A man was arrested after he allegedly stabbed a snack car seller in West Phoenix in February.

The Phoenix police said they were called to an area near the 35th Avenue and the Van Buren Street shortly after 11:30 p.m. on February 17th to have reports on a stitch.

When the officials arrived, they found a man with several stab wounds. The man was taken to the hospital, but he died of his injuries.

The victim, who was identified as a 41-year-old Heriberto Acosta, was reportedly a food truck seller and cleaned up for the day on which he was attacked.

See previous ABC15 reporting on the original incident in the player below.

Food truck dealer stabbed, killed in Phoenix

There was a fight between the men and the employees of Food Truck, and according to witness reports, Acosta was stabbed several times during the fight.

Witnesses told the police that the group of men had pushed Acosta down and attacked him. Two witnesses tried to stop the attack and were allegedly stopped by the suspects.

The police say that during this incident nobody had serious injuries.

Days later, the authorities received an anonymous caller who said that Montel Ujean Reed received a call from his brother and asked for help when someone tried to attack him. “

“[An anonymous caller reported that] Reed and several other men drove into the area of ​​the food truck to pick up the brother, and then he pointed out the man who tried to attack him. Montel got out of the vehicle and stabbed the topic several times, ”says the documents.

Two days after the original anonymous tip, the same caller contacted the violent criminal office and said that Reed had claimed that he broke the knife blade when he stabbed Acosta. According to officials, a knife was found at the crime scene.

The caller told the officials that “had to be excited about what he did”, and that Reed had disappeared for a few days after the media reports on the stitch reports.

After the attack, the men reported to their vehicle again and left the scene.

The caller described the car with which the scene had fled as a red chevrolet impala with red rims. The police confirmed that one of Reed's brothers had a red impala with red rims.

According to the police, the brother's phone was found at the crime scene.

The brother's DNA was also found in both hands of Acosta, according to court documents and on the broken knife handle and in the broken knife handle and the blade.

Reeds DNA was found on the scene on the knife sheath.

Reed is faced with a count of a second degree murder, a number of first degree murder, a count of kidnapping and a number of serious bodily harm.

It is unclear whether Reed's brother is suspended in this incident.