KEVON FELMINE

kevon.felmine@guardian.co.tt

South­ern Di­vi­sion po­lice are in­ves­ti­gat­ing the ac­ci­den­tal death of a 12-year-old Princes Town boy who died af­ter falling on­to a knife yes­ter­day.

Tariq Toney, of In­di­an Walk, Princes Town, died on his way to the Princes Town Dis­trict Health Fa­cil­i­ty (PT­D­HF) around 7 pm. A po­lice re­port stat­ed that Tariq was home with his par­ents around 5.30 pm. His moth­er, Jay­loy Toney-Clarke and her hus­band, Arnold Clarke, were in their bed­room while Tariq cut co­conuts at the back of the house.

Toney-Clarke called out to Tariq through a win­dow to come in­side and bathe.

A minute lat­er, Tariq came in­to her bed­room bleed­ing from a wound to the neck, say­ing, "Look what hap­pened, Mom. Look what hap­pened."

Toney-Clarke called for an am­bu­lance, but af­ter wait­ing some time, her broth­er came to the house and took Tariq to the PT­D­HF.

How­ev­er, staff said Tariq was un­re­spon­sive when they ar­rived. Po­lice went to the home and processed the scene, and took cus­tody of a wood­en-han­dled knife. In­ves­ti­ga­tors said that based on a doc­tor's as­sess­ment of the tra­jec­to­ry of the wound en­ter­ing the neck, they be­lieve Tariq fell on­to it.