SPRINGFIELD, Mass. — Police say they are now investigating the death of a man found with stab wounds in Springfield as an "unattended death."
Officers responded to Boston Road at about 7 p.m. Saturday for reports of several men fighting.
Police found the man nearby with a knife next to his body.
Police had originally said the death was being investigated as a homicide.
Department spokesman Ryan Walsh says he was pronounced dead at the scene.
The name of the victim was not released.
The stabbing was just one of several violent incidents in the city over the weekend, which included another non-fatal stabbing at a nightclub and a non-fatal shooting.
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