An autopsy examination performed by pathologist Dr. Nehaul Singh yesterday, on Mark Ifill who was fatally stabbed on Tuesday afternoon, revealed that he died as a result of punctured lungs.
Ifill, called ‘Yankee,’ 42, of Bagotstown, reportedly died on the spot at Water Street, where he had allegedly been attacked by Sheldon Bowen, 41, called ‘Muslim,’ who is now in police custody.
Ifill had been involved in an argument with Bowen over water.
Police, in a statement issued on Tuesday, said the two men had had a heated altercation over Ifill’s removal of water from a pipe in the suspect’s yard. As a result, they fought and the suspect dealt Ifill a blow to his head with an object.
Bowen left after they were parted by public-spirited persons, and returned minutes later with a knife and stabbed Ifill to his chest, causing him to run and collapse a short distance away, the police bulletin said.
The suspect’s wife, Michelle, (only name given), told this newspaper that she was at home when the confrontation occurred. The woman, who is pregnant with the couple’s sixth child, explained that she was told that the fight had broken out after Ifill had refused to comply with the instructions given to him by her husband, who had asked him to desist from using their pipe.
A team of medical personnel from the Georgetown Public Hospital responded to the scene and pronounced Ifill dead on the spot.