An­na-Lisa Paul

Se­nior Re­porter

an­na-lisa.paul@guardian.co.tt

A teenag­er, who was found bleed­ing from stab wounds at the Queen’s Park Sa­van­nah (QPS), Port-of-Spain, on Tues­day and who lat­er died at hos­pi­tal, has been iden­ti­fied as Khaleeq Thomas.

Thomas, 19, was un­em­ployed and lived at Pic­ton Road, Dan Kel­ly, Laven­tille.

His death is be­lieved to be the re­sult of an al­ter­ca­tion with an­oth­er man. Around 2.35 pm on Au­gust 13, po­lice re­ceived a re­port of an in­jured man ly­ing face-down near the food strip at the QPS, op­po­site the Na­tion­al Acad­e­my of Per­form­ing Arts.

When they ar­rived, two teenagers, aged 15 and 17, both from East­ern Quar­ry, Laven­tille, di­rect­ed them to where the vic­tim was ly­ing.

Thomas, who had stab wounds in the head and up­per body, was re­spon­sive at the time.

Po­lice of­fi­cers from the St Clair Po­lice Sta­tion took the vic­tim to the Port-of-Spain Gen­er­al Hos­pi­tal, where he passed away at 2.44 pm.

While at the hos­pi­tal, the of­fi­cers re­ceived in­for­ma­tion that re­sult­ed in the ar­rest of a 46-year-old man from Mal­abar, Ari­ma, who him­self had gone to seek med­ical at­ten­tion.

He was lat­er tak­en to the Wood­brook Po­lice Sta­tion.

When Thomas was found at the QPS, his pants had been pulled down, and he was in a pair of briefs and a pair of ma­roon-coloured sneak­ers.

Ev­i­dence was col­lect­ed at the scene that be­longed to the sus­pect, in­clud­ing a blue jer­sey, a green-print­ed jer­sey, a pair of black long pants, a pair of cream-coloured sneak­ers and a cell­phone.

In­ves­ti­ga­tions are con­tin­u­ing.