Twenty-year-old killed in fatal stabbing

BOSTON -- Police are searching for a suspect who stabbed a twenty-year-old man last Thursday.

Daniel Yakovleff, a popular hairstylist at Liquid Hair Salon in Boston's South End, was found stabbed to death in his Dorchester apartment last Thursday.

Friends believe that Yakovleff may have been targeted for being gay.

“We feel that if this had happened to a white twenty-year-old female, this would have been front page news,” Carry Mann, Yakovleff’s friend, said. ”Why isn’t the gay community being warned about this?”

Yakovleff was last seen leaving “The Eagle” bar, a South End gay bar, earlier that evening. His body was found the following morning.

Friends describe Yakovleff as a positive person with a great personality.

“He had a very bright future,” Mann said. “It’s a tragedy that this has happened.”

Police say that they have questioned one person of interest; however that received very little information. It is believed that this incident was not random.

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