Man stabbed to death in store after someone picked on him at counter, sister says
.jpg "Sammy Sparks of Fort Worth is accused of fatally stabbing another man Monday night.")
Kenneth Daniels was at Como Grocery Monday night buying meat.
His sister said Tuesday someone began picking on her 58-year-old brother at a store counter.
“I had told him if people started picking on him to walk away,” Joann Daniels said Tuesday in a telephone interview. “I don’t know why people picked on him.”
At some point Monday night, Kenneth Daniels was stabbed in the store, and later died at a local hospital.
Police arrested Sammy Sparks, 65, of Fort Worth at the scene and accused him of stabbing to death Daniels.
“I know that name,” Joann Daniels said Tuesday referring to Sparks. “Our family knows them. Why this happened, I don’t know.”
Police had not released any details on a motive for the Monday night stabbing.
Patrol officers responded to a cutting call shortly after 7 a.m. Monday at 5536 Bonnell Ave.
When they arrived, officers found Kenneth Daniels inside of Como Grocery with apparent stab wounds to his upper body. He was taken to a local hospital where he was pronounced dead at 8:18 p.m. Monday.
Joann Daniels said her brother lived at The Resting Place, an assisted living center in west Fort Worth. He had been living there since August 2017, she said.
“He was allowed to leave and that store was one of the places he would go to,” his sister said.
Joann Daniels said her brother was buying meat at a counter when something happened between her brother and another man.
“I don’t like to talk about it,” she said. “I was told something happened.”
After the stabbing, Sparks was arrested at the scene and booked into the Fort Worth Jail early Tuesday. He has since been moved to the Tarrant County Jail and bail has not been set.
Sparks is facing a charge of murder in the case, according to jail records.
Before Monday, Sparks was arrested in 1991 and accused of engaging in a riot, but that case was later dismissed, according to Tarrant County criminal court records. He served 30 days in jail in December 2000 for failure to identify.
This story was originally published March 12, 2019 at 10:27 AM with the headline "Man stabbed to death in store after someone picked on him at counter, sister says."
