A family member on Monday identified the man who was found dead with a chest wound on an Apple Valley sidewalk.
Results of an autopsy are pending from the Hennepin County Medical Examiner’s Office in connection with the death of Daniel Isaac Aguilar, 21, said his brother Angel Aguilar.
Officers were dispatched about 3:10 a.m. Sunday to the intersection of Pennock Avenue and 138th Street W. after receiving a report of someone down on the sidewalk, read a police statement.
The officers found the man covered in blood, according to the statement. He was declared dead at the scene.
Angel Aguilar said his family is still in the dark of the circumstances surrounding his brother’s death, including how the wound was inflicted.
“Police were asking a bunch of questions to get a time frame, you know,” Angel Aguilar said.
He said his brother was living in Lakeville at the time of his death and “was out walking that night” in a neighborhood where he has friends and family.
“I’ve been with him the past three nights, and the one night he needed me, I wasn’t there,” Angel Aguilar said. “He was a beam of light. ... You couldn’t hate him.”
