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Man Stabbed to Death During Pick-Up Soccer Game at Philadelphia Playground

An investigation is underway after a man was stabbed to death during a pick-up soccer game in Northeast Philadelphia on Sunday.

Police told NBC10 a group of people were playing soccer at the Max Myers Recreation Center playground off Magee Avenue around 4 p.m. when at least two men began arguing. During the argument, a 24-year-old man was stabbed in the torso.

Franklin William De Souza of Horrocks Street died a short time later at the hospital, police said.

A man was later arrested but has not been named, police said.

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