A 16-year-old boy has been charged with fatally stabbing a 20-year-old man during a street fight late at night last week in St. Cloud.

Muhiyadin M. Hassan, of St. Cloud, was charged Monday in Stearns County District Court with second-degree unintentional murder in the death Friday of 20-year-old Davee Moshea Devose, of St. Cloud.

Hassan remains in a juvenile detention facility. The county attorney’s office made a motion Monday to have Hassan prosecuted as an adult.

According to the criminal complaint and police: About 1:40 a.m. officers were dispatched near 6th Avenue and 5th Street S. concerning a street fight. They found Devose lying on the street, stabbed in the chest. Paramedics declared him dead at the scene.

Police located Hassan a few blocks south of the scene. He admitted that he stabbed Devose during a fight. The knife was recovered near the scene.

Paul Walsh