An ar­gu­ment over a dance with a young woman on Car­ni­val Tues­day end­ed with the mur­der of a na­tion­al youth box­er.

Po­lice said 18-year-old Prince Charles was en­joy­ing Last Lap fes­tiv­i­ties on the East­ern Main Road around 10.30 pm when he got in­to an ar­gu­ment with a man over a dance (wine) with a woman.

The man had re­port­ed­ly claimed the woman was his rel­a­tive.

The ar­gu­ment es­ca­lat­ed in­to a fight and dur­ing the scuf­fle, the 57-year-old man pulled out a knife and stabbed Charles in the chest be­fore run­ning away.

How­ev­er, the sus­pect was held near­by by of­fi­cers from the San­gre Grande Po­lice Sta­tion.

Re­spond­ing of­fi­cers took Charles, who lived at Guaico, to the San­gre Grande Hos­pi­tal, where doc­tors de­clared him dead at 10.49 pm.

In­ves­ti­ga­tors said the knife, be­lieved to be the mur­der weapon, was al­so seized, with the blade ap­pear­ing to be six inch­es in length.

Charles’ killing has left class­mates at the San­gre Grande Sec­ondary School and his rel­a­tives in mourn­ing.

Dur­ing yes­ter­day morn­ing’s gen­er­al as­sem­bly, the Form Five stu­dent’s class­mates and oth­er stu­dents learnt about his death.

A source said the prin­ci­pal and staff ex­tend­ed their con­do­lences to his fam­i­ly as teach­ers paid trib­ute to Charles, de­scrib­ing him as a dis­ci­plined and in­tel­li­gent stu­dent.

The phys­i­cal ed­u­ca­tion teacher said Charles’ main goal was to be­come a renowned box­ing cham­pi­on.

When Guardian Me­dia vis­it­ed his rel­a­tives in Guaico, his fa­ther Ryan Solomon could not hide his emo­tions.

He said Charles was lov­ing and was fo­cused on a box­ing ca­reer. He said his son fought in coun­tries like Pana­ma, the Unit­ed States and­Puer­to Ri­co, and won sev­er­al medals and tro­phies.

He said the teen want­ed to be a sol­dier but fell in love with box­ing. Solomon said Charles was prepar­ing for ex­ams and used to wash cars to earn ex­tra cash.

The teen’s moth­er, Fri­day Charles-Solomon, said he nev­er par­tic­i­pat­ed in Car­ni­val ac­tiv­i­ties and this year was the first time he had gone.

She said a rel­a­tive came to her house trem­bling and telling her “Prince now get stabbed and is un­con­scious. Get up, let’s go!” 

She said when she ar­rived at the San­gre Grande Hos­pi­tal, she saw her son’s body.

“On­ly a few hours ago, he had that pleas­ant smile on his face. I can’t be­lieve that was my son. He was strong and healthy and why he had to die in this cru­el man­ner is un­fair,” she said as she broke down in tears. The par­ents are call­ing for jus­tice.