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Sioux City man charged in fatal summer stabbing

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February 7th, 2018 by Ric Hanson

SIOUX CITY, Iowa (AP) — Authorities have arrested a Sioux City man in the stabbing death of a man last summer. The Sioux City Journal reports a Woodbury County grand jury in November indicted 44-year-old Jeremy Lillich on one count of involuntary manslaughter. He was arrested Wednesday and booked into the Woodbury County Jail.

He’s charged in the June 3 stabbing death of 21-year-old James R.D. Purcell, of Sioux City. Officers were called to a disturbance at a home and found Purcell had been stabbed. He later died.

Lillich had been serving a prison sentence on a drug conviction, but Corrections Department records show he would have been either on work release or parole when the stabbing occurred.