UPDATE: Man accused in Pisgah View fatal stabbing is in custody

ASHEVILLE - Police have charged a man in a fatal stabbing Sunday morning in Pisgah View Apartments. 

Police responded to the complex at 10:32 a.m. after reports of a stabbing, according to APD spokeswoman Christina Hallingse. Officers found 39-year-old Justin Paul Digiacomo, an Asheville resident since 2008, with a wound to the upper torso. Digiacomo died on the scene.

Police took out an arrest warrant for Cecil Thorpe, 53, accusing him of second-degree murder, Hallingse said in a press release around 5 p.m. Sunday. He was taken into custody later in the evening.

Neither Digiacomo nor Thorpe had established residences in Pisgah View but were known to stay there from time to time, Hallingse said.

APD asks for anyone with information about the incident to call police at 828-252-1110 or Crime Stoppers at 828-255-5050.