Veteran and 'devoted father,' 68, stabbed to death on New Year’s Eve: police

A 68-year-old in Alabama was stabbed to death on New Year's Eve, and family members mourned the devoted family man and military veteran.

Earnest Christion Jr., 68, was killed in a stabbing at a Birmingham home Tuesday, according to a release from the Birmingham Police Department.

Officers arrived at the Birmingham home around 7 p.m. following a 911 call. They found Christion "unresponsive, suffering from what our officers believed to be a stab wound," police said.

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