Hours af­ter he was re­leased from po­lice cus­tody, the close male rel­a­tive who al­leged­ly killed 19-year-old Alex Coombs at­tend­ed his fu­ner­al.

Coombs' fu­ner­al took place at the Wes­leyan Ho­li­ness Church in Freeport yes­ter­day morn­ing. He was lat­er laid to rest at the St Mary's Junc­tion Pub­lic Ceme­tery.

An au­top­sy con­duct­ed at the Foren­sic Sci­ence Cen­tre re­vealed that Coombs died from a sin­gle stab wound to the chest.

Po­lice said the sus­pect was re­leased pend­ing a Coro­ner's In­quest. The in­quest was or­dered by the Di­rec­tor of Pub­lic Pros­e­cu­tions.

The sus­pect, 56, sur­ren­dered to the Freeport Po­lice Sta­tion on Tues­day morn­ing.

Last Sun­day around 11 pm Coombs was al­leged­ly de­nied food, an elec­tron­ic de­vice, beat­en, choked and stabbed.

The in­ci­dent oc­curred at his home on McLeod Street.

Po­lice said the sus­pect al­leged that Coombs be­came vi­o­lent af­ter he was told to take his med­ica­tion and re­fused.

Coombs' moth­er, Sabi­ta Par­tap, re­vealed that the teen was di­ag­nosed with a men­tal ill­ness. She al­so claimed he had suf­fered years of abuse at the hands of rel­a­tives.