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Monday, July 14, 2025

Three in custody over bar killing

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Short­ly af­ter he tried to woo a fe­male bar pa­tron, a 33-year-old pip­efit­ter was stabbed to death with his own knife at a Pe­nal night­club yes­ter­day.Garvin Alex­is, of Erin Road, San­ta Flo­ra bled out on the floor at Club J's Bar and Lounge at SS Erin Road, Batchiya Vil­lage af­ter an al­ter­ca­tion with three oth­er cus­tomers.

Alex­is, who worked at Lease Op­er­a­tors, San­ta Flo­ra, was lim­ing at the bar when around 1 am, he ap­proached a fe­male pa­tron and be­gan talk­ing to her. With­in a minute, two male friends of the woman con­front­ed Alex­is and ac­cused him of ha­rass­ing her. Po­lice were told that a fight broke out and Alex­is pulled out a knife. One of the men dis­armed Alex­is and stabbed him sev­er­al times on the neck and back. Pa­trons be­gan scream­ing and ran out of the club when Alex­is fell to the floor.

Pe­nal CID of­fi­cers led by Supt Ram­lal, In­sp Granger, Sgt Ram­s­ingh along with Sgt Flave­ny of the South­ern Homi­cide Di­vi­sion vis­it­ed and processed the scene. Alex­is' body was tak­en to the Foren­sic Sci­ence Cen­tre pend­ing an au­top­sy.

About two hours lat­er, the three sus­pects walked in­to the San Fer­nan­do Po­lice Sta­tion and one of the men re­port­ed that he had been at­tacked and wound­ed while lim­ing at the same bar. Po­lice es­cort­ed him to the San Fer­nan­do Gen­er­al Hos­pi­tal, where he was treat­ed for su­per­fi­cial wounds and tak­en in­to cus­tody. Po­lice al­so seized a knife, which they be­lieved was used in Alex­is' killing and ar­rest­ed two oth­er sus­pects, a man and a woman.

Up to late yes­ter­day, they were try­ing to de­ter­mine whether the killing was a mur­der or self-de­fence.Of­fi­cers said the club was known to have spe­cial en­ter­tain­ment and be­cause of reg­u­lar fights over women in the past, they had re­strict­ed ac­cess by women.


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