Homeless Man Arrested in Fatal Santa Monica Beach Stabbing

On an ordinary Monday afternoon in early August, a young man of 27 visited Santa Monica Beach and did not return home. Near a public restroom breezeway, a brief argument became a fatal stabbing, and a homeless man named Juan Evarastico Bahena was taken into custody on suspicion of murder — found still at the scene, the alleged weapon in his backpack, witnesses all around him. The incident joins a long and unresolved conversation about public safety, human vulnerability, and the visible suffering that gathers at the edges of prosperous places.