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Cops -- Man fatally stabbed over New Jersey Devils hat at tony Philadelphia park

PHILADELPHIA -- A man wearing a New Jersey Devils cap stabbed another man to death in a posh section of Philadelphia after an argument about the hat turned physical, police said Monday.

The stabbing happened just after 3 a.m. Sunday in the city's tony Rittenhouse Square, authorities said. Emergency responders found 24-year-old Colin McGovern, of Churchville, lying on the sidewalk with stab wounds to the torso. He was pronounced dead at a hospital.

"This was over a hockey cap," Homicide Capt. James Clark said, calling the crime "very senseless."

Clark said McGovern and three companions had been out for a night on the town and were just getting out of a cab with the intention of finding a hotel.