SAN DIEGO (FOX 5/KUSI) — On Friday, the San Diego Police Department released the names of the two men involved in a stabbing and shooting on Fiesta Island last Wednesday.
Officers responded to a call of a stabbing at Fiesta Island last Wednesday around 10:03 a.m. and found two men just along the islet’s shore. One of the men had been stabbed and one of them had been shot, police said.
The man who had been stabbed was an off-duty officer who has worked for the San Diego Community College District Police Department for 25 years. He was identified Friday as Victor Bocaya.
Meanwhile, the man who had been shot was identified as 41-year-old Brian Maloney III. He was pronounced dead at the scene, authorities said.
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According to SDPD, Bocaya arrived at Fiesta Island to walk his dogs. Maloney was near his van parked about 75 feet away from Bocaya’s vehicle. Before Bocaya could get his dogs out of his vehicle, Maloney began yelling at him and approached him, police said.