LONDON (AP) – British police say a man has been attacked and killed on his way to a hospital to visit his newborn son.

London’s Metropolitan Police said Friday that the 26-year-old man was stabbed to death outside a grocery store in Croydon, south London.

The man’s name has not been released. He was traveling with his 3-year-old daughter. She was not hurt.

The detective in charge of the case says the man’s son was born Thursday morning and he was stabbed later the same day. Detective Chief Inspector Cliff Lyons called it a shocking, tragic attack.

Police arrested a 22-year-old man in connection with the stabbing.

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