A 16-year-old boy is now dead after he was stabbed just after midnight, on Monday.

Dead is Benjamin Seaford of Lot 12 Public Road, Kitty. Police said the suspect, a 22-year-old of the same village, and the victim are known to each other.

According to police, investigations revealed that around 00:45 hours on Monday, Seaford and the suspect were at the corner of Lamaha and Gordon streets, where they got into an argument.
They later ended up in a scuffle and the suspect reached into his left side pants waist, pulled out a knife and stabbed the boy several times about his body.

The victim then ran in a western direction on Gordon Street and collapsed about 100 feet from the intersection of Gordon and Lamaha Street. The suspect then made good his escape.
The police and Emergency Medical Technicians (EMTs) were summoned to the scene.

Seaford was examined and escorted to the Georgetown Public Hospital where he was pronounced dead on arrival. His body is at the Memorial Gardens Funeral Home awaiting post-mortem examination. Investigations are ongoing.