Man arrested in connection with fatal Princes Town stabbing

A 39-year-old man has been ar­rest­ed in con­nec­tion with the fa­tal stab­bing of an­oth­er man dur­ing an al­ter­ca­tion in Princes Town on Sun­day af­ter­noon.

Po­lice iden­ti­fied the de­ceased as Stephen Jack, 39, of Chin Chin, Cunu­pia.

Ac­cord­ing to the Trinidad and To­ba­go Po­lice Ser­vice (TTPS), of­fi­cers re­spond­ed to re­ports of a stab­bing along Char­lotte Street, Princes Town, at about 3:20 p.m. on Sun­day.

By the time of­fi­cers ar­rived, Jack had al­ready been trans­port­ed by a res­i­dent to the Princes Town Health Fa­cil­i­ty af­ter suf­fer­ing mul­ti­ple stab wounds.

Med­ical per­son­nel at­tempt­ed to save his life, but he suc­cumbed to his in­juries and was pro­nounced dead at 4:05 p.m.

Pre­lim­i­nary in­ves­ti­ga­tions re­vealed that Jack had gone to Char­lotte Street in search of a fe­male res­i­dent when he be­came in­volved in an ar­gu­ment with an­oth­er man. Po­lice said the dis­pute es­ca­lat­ed in­to a phys­i­cal con­fronta­tion dur­ing which Jack was stabbed mul­ti­ple times.

Crime Scene In­ves­ti­ga­tors lat­er processed the scene and re­cov­ered sev­er­al items con­sid­ered to be of ev­i­den­tial val­ue.

Act­ing on in­for­ma­tion re­ceived dur­ing the in­ves­ti­ga­tion, of­fi­cers sub­se­quent­ly ar­rest­ed a 39-year-old Char­lotte Street res­i­dent in con­nec­tion with the killing.

Po­lice al­so re­cov­ered a flick knife from the sus­pect’s pos­ses­sion, which in­ves­ti­ga­tors be­lieve may be of ev­i­den­tial val­ue.

The sus­pect re­mains in po­lice cus­tody as in­ves­ti­ga­tions con­tin­ue.

The in­quiry is be­ing su­per­vised by Se­nior Su­per­in­ten­dent (Ag.) Williams and As­sis­tant Su­per­in­ten­dent (Ag.) Thomas.

Po­lice have not dis­closed a mo­tive for the con­fronta­tion, and in­ves­ti­ga­tors are con­tin­u­ing to in­ter­view wit­ness­es and ex­am­ine the ev­i­dence col­lect­ed from the scene.

The killing adds to the coun­try’s on­go­ing homi­cide in­ves­ti­ga­tions, with de­tec­tives ex­pect­ed to de­ter­mine the cir­cum­stances that led to the fa­tal en­counter and whether charges will be laid against the sus­pect in the com­ing days.