Man killed after Enterprise altercation

A 26-year-old man was killed fol­low­ing an al­ter­ca­tion with a 40-year-old man at School Street, En­ter­prise, on Thurs­day morn­ing.

The de­ceased has been iden­ti­fied as Joseph Nar­cise, who lived in the com­mu­ni­ty.

His 18-year-old younger sis­ter, Davina Bu­choon, said the two men had been in­volved in a long­stand­ing feud which be­gan af­ter Nar­cise moved to En­ter­prise from Ari­ma with his com­mon-law wife and her five chil­dren.

Bu­choon al­leged that ten­sions be­tween the men had per­sist­ed for months, with fre­quent ex­changes of words.

She said the dis­pute stemmed from a dis­agree­ment that de­vel­oped while Nar­cise was work­ing for the old­er man, whom she iden­ti­fied.

How­ev­er, she al­so claimed that footage showed the old­er man re­mov­ing beer bot­tles from a bag and throw­ing them at Nar­cise.

Dur­ing the con­fronta­tion, Nar­cise was stabbed, Bu­choon said.

She re­called that he was still alive and gasp­ing for breath while ly­ing in her yard af­ter the in­ci­dent.

Po­lice sub­se­quent­ly took him to a health cen­tre, where he was pro­nounced dead.

Bu­choon be­lieves her broth­er may have died while be­ing trans­port­ed for med­ical at­ten­tion.

The 40-year-old man was ar­rest­ed in con­nec­tion with the in­ci­dent.

Po­lice in­ves­ti­ga­tions are con­tin­u­ing.