A 17-year-old boy of Four Mile Village, Port Kaituma is now in police custody after he allegedly murdered a 21-year-old miner of Quarry Top, Port Kaituma, North West District.
Dead is 21 year-old Shimron Benjamin.
A police press release said that the 17 year-old, allegedly murdered Benjamin early yesterday morning.
Enquiries revealed that around 00:30 hours on Tuesday, Benjamin was drinking high wine along with the 17-year-old suspect, and both of them appeared to have been intoxicated. At around 01:00 hours, Tuesday, a 64-year-old farmer of S1A Junction, Four-Mile Village, saw Benjamin lying motionless in the grass with blood on his head about 30 feet from his home.
The farmer immediately informed Royston Bumbury, the 57-year-old Toshao of Four-Mile Village, NWD, who came with his ATV and escorted the victim to the Port Kaituma District Hospital, where he was seen and examined by a doctor who pronounced him dead on arrival.
The victim’s body was examined, and it was observed that his face had been bashed in. The body is at the Port Kaituma District Hospital’s Mortuary pending a post-mortem examination.
The matter was reported to the police at 01:51 hours. Less than 10 minutes later, at about 02:00 hours, the scene was visited by ASP Kooldeep, Detective Sergeant Melville and Detective Constable Weekes.
Police found a rock with a reddish substance suspected to be blood at the scene.
