Early-morning

An ear­ly-morn­ing ar­gu­ment at a San Fer­nan­do bar yes­ter­day es­ca­lat­ed in­to vi­o­lence, leav­ing a 19-year-old Venezue­lan na­tion­al dead.

The vic­tim has been iden­ti­fied as Je­sus Car­los Sive­dre of Har­mo­ny Hall, Gas­par­il­lo.

Po­lice re­port­ed that around 4 am, Sive­dre was so­cial­iz­ing with his broth­er at a bar along Leo­taud Street, off Cipero Street, when they be­came in­volved in a dis­pute with three Trinida­di­an men over Venezue­lan women present at the es­tab­lish­ment.

The con­fronta­tion quick­ly es­ca­lat­ed in­to a phys­i­cal fight, prompt­ing the broth­ers to flee. The chase con­tin­ued to the cor­ner of Im­rie and Rigs­by Streets, where the al­ter­ca­tion per­sist­ed and beer bot­tles were re­port­ed­ly thrown.

In­ves­ti­ga­tors said Sive­dre’s broth­er man­aged to scale the wall of a near­by res­i­den­tial prop­er­ty to es­cape, but Sive­dre was caught and at­tacked with mul­ti­ple cut­lass strikes. Blood was re­port­ed on the ground, the wall of a house, a gate, and a near­by ve­hi­cle.

Of­fi­cers of the Homi­cide Bu­reau of In­ves­ti­ga­tions, Re­gion 3 are con­tin­u­ing in­quiries in­to the in­ci­dent.