City investigates first homicide of 2011.

Police in Wilmington are investigating the city’s first homicide of the year after a man was stabbed and killed in front of the Rhino Club Downtown early this morning. According to witnesses, a large crowd from the club exited at closing time and a fight broke out. Thirty to forty people were involved in the altercation and three men were stabbed. One of the victims was stabbed in the chest and was pronounced dead at the hospital. The two other victims are expected to survive. There were five homicides in the Port City over twenty ten.