A 44-year-old miner of Princeville Village, Mahdia, Region Eight, was killed on Thursday evening after being stabbed for denying the perpetrator an alcoholic beverage.
Dead is Leavern Daniels. Reports indicate that he was killed at around 23:45hrs by a man known as ‘Tattoo Nose’.

Reports are that Daniels, and a group of friends, were consuming alcohol at a shop when the suspect approached their table and requested to join them.
However, the suspect was denied. Police said the suspect became annoyed and threatened to kill Daniels.

Shortly after, the victim left and was on his way to a camp, when he was attacked and stabbed in the region of his abdomen by the suspect, police said.

Daniels was pronounced dead on arrival at the Mahdia Hospital. The body is presently at the hospital’s mortuary awaiting an autopsy.