An 18-year-old Venezue­lan is still re­cov­er­ing at the Scar­bor­ough Hos­pi­tal af­ter he was stabbed dur­ing a fight at Store Bay Beach Fa­cil­i­ty on Sun­day, in an in­ci­dent that al­so led to the ar­rest of an­oth­er Venezue­lan man who gave po­lice his name as Roger Alexan­der, the Home­land Se­cu­ri­ty Min­is­ter.

Po­lice said Daniel Or­tiz of Shir­van Road was among a group of Venezue­lans at the beach around 9.45 am when they got in­to an ar­gu­ment with a man they had paid to buy drinks. Af­ter the men re­fused to give him ex­tra cash for trans­port, the dis­pute es­ca­lat­ed, and sev­er­al oth­er men joined in.

The Venezue­lans ran but were chased. Or­tiz was caught near Ben’s Bar on Store Bay Lo­cal Road, where he was beat­en and stabbed. He suf­fered a punc­tured lung and mul­ti­ple stab wounds to his back. He was tak­en to the Scar­bor­ough Gen­er­al Hos­pi­tal, where he is still be­ing treat­ed.

Po­lice said dur­ing the con­fronta­tion, an­oth­er Venezue­lan na­tion­al, who iden­ti­fied him­self as Roger Alexan­der, pulled a gun and fired two shots.

Crown Point of­fi­cers, Task Force mem­bers, and se­nior of­fi­cers, in­clud­ing ACP Subero and Snr Supt Earl Elie, re­spond­ed.

Of­fi­cers found him lat­er at Store Bay Beach Fa­cil­i­ty and found a Glock pis­tol hid­den in his un­der­wear. He was ar­rest­ed and tak­en to Crown Point Po­lice Sta­tion.

The man who gave a false name cre­at­ed con­fu­sion on so­cial me­dia be­cause it is the same name as the Home­land Se­cu­ri­ty Min­is­ter. The min­istry lat­er is­sued a re­lease con­firm­ing the sus­pect is not the Min­is­ter and crit­i­cised some me­dia out­lets for mis­lead­ing the pub­lic.

Snr Supt Earl Elie said the man has since giv­en po­lice an­oth­er name. He is want­ed for sev­er­al in­ci­dents and is ex­pect­ed to be charged soon.

The Crim­i­nal In­ves­ti­ga­tions De­part­ment is con­tin­u­ing en­quiries.