The Police say they are investigating the murder of Mark Ifill a/k “Yankie”, 39 year, a labourer of no fixed place of abode, which occurred about 1030h. today at Water Street, Bagotstown, WBD, allegedly by a 41 year old security guard of the said village.
Enquiries, police say, disclosed that the suspect and Ifill had a heated altercation over the removal of a water pipe by Ifill from the suspect’s yard and they fought, during which the suspect dealt him a lash to his head with an object, went away after being parted by public-spirited persons but he (suspect) returned minutes later with a knife and stabbed Ifill to the left region of his chest, causing him to run and collapse a short distance away.
A team of medical personnel from the GPHC responded and pronounced Ifill dead. The body is presently at Lyken’s Funeral Parlour awaiting a post mortem examination.
The suspect is in custody assisting with the investigation.
