A 35-year-old man was stabbed to death fol­low­ing an al­ter­ca­tion with a group of men at a Va­len­cia gas sta­tion yes­ter­day morn­ing.

The de­ceased has been iden­ti­fied as Fen­wick Gib­son, of Mc David Street, Lopinot. His body was iden­ti­fied by his cousin, Este Hug­gins.

Ac­cord­ing to po­lice re­ports, around 5.48 am, Gib­son and Hug­gins went to the gas sta­tion to re­fu­el when Gib­son be­came in­volved in an ar­gu­ment with a group of men.

Dur­ing the con­fronta­tion, Gib­son was al­leged­ly beat­en and stabbed in the neck.

He was sub­se­quent­ly placed in a white open-tray van and trans­port­ed to the Ari­ma Hos­pi­tal, where he was ex­am­ined by a doc­tor. How­ev­er, he lat­er suc­cumbed to his in­juries and was pro­nounced dead.

Of­fi­cers from the Va­len­cia Po­lice Post, in­clud­ing Act­ing Cor­po­ral Ramkha­lawan and PC Fran­cis, vis­it­ed the scene and ini­ti­at­ed in­ves­ti­ga­tions.

Po­lice are now re­view­ing CCTV footage from the area as part of their in­quiries. Of­fi­cers of the Homi­cide Bu­reau of In­ves­ti­ga­tions, Re­gion Two, Arou­ca, are in­ves­ti­gat­ing the in­ci­dent. — Ralph Bawarie