A man who refused to hand over his Blackberry cellphone to a bandit was stabbed to death on Friday evening.
Akeel Mathieson was leaving an Internet cafe, when a man placed a knife to his neck and demanded his brand new cellphone, police said.
Mathieson, 23, resisted and was stabbed once in the chest. He returned to the cafe and collapsed, police said.
The incident happened around 5.15 p.m. at Lord Street, San Fernando.
Mathieson, a cameraman with Acts 25, a gospel cable channel, lived at Jarvis Street, Vistabella.
His father, George, was too distraught to speak with the media yesterday. ’I cannot go through that again. Everyone is calling and asking what happened. I cannot do that again,’ he said.
Police were, last evening, searching for the suspect, who escaped with his victim’s cellphone.
Homicide detectives are continuing investigations.
-CK
