Daly City man caught on camera fleeing homicide scene arrested

Daly City resident Aaron Tagata, 23, was caught on camera fleeing the scene of the stabbing death of a 58-year-old man in San Francisco. He was charged with murder. Daly City resident Aaron Tagata, 23, was caught on camera fleeing the scene of the stabbing death of a 58-year-old man in San Francisco. He was charged with murder. Photo: San Francisco Police Department / San Francisco Police Department Photo: San Francisco Police Department / San Francisco Police Department Image 1 of / 1 Caption Close Daly City man caught on camera fleeing homicide scene arrested 1 / 1 Back to Gallery

A 23-year-old man from Daly City was arrested for a San Francisco slaying, police said Friday.

Aaron Tagata — who had been a suspect in the Jan. 29 stabbing death of 58-year-old San Francisco resident Marco Perez-Diaz — was arrested in Daly City on Wednesday, according to the San Francisco Police Department.

Officers with the Daly City Police Department spotted Tagata around the intersection of Mission Street and Templeton Avenue just before 9 a.m., officials said.

Tagata was transferred to San Francisco County Jail, where he was held on $12 million bail, jail records show. He was charged with murder.

Tagata was captured on surveillance footage fleeing the scene of the crime, at Mission and Excelsior streets just after 9 a.m., which allowed police to identify him, they said. Perez-Diaz was stabbed in the head repeatedly, and he died from his injuries at San Francisco General Hospital, police said.

Michael Bodley is a San Francisco Chronicle staff writer. Email: mbodley@sfchronicle.com. Twitter: @michael_bodley