Coroner: City man died of stab wound early Tuesday

Springfield police are treating the death of a 43-year-old Springfield man as a homicide.Sangamon County Coroner Jim Allmon said preliminary results of an autopsy performed in Bloomington on Wednesday indicate that Ray Lofton died from a stab wound early Tuesday morning.Lofton was pronounced dead by medical staff at HSHS St. John’s Hospital at 12:29 a.m. Tuesday.Springfield police originally responded to a report of a subject who had been struck by a […]