BACOLOD CITY – A 22-year-old construction worker was allegedly stabbed to death by his neighbor while pacifying an altercation in Barangay Bulwangan, Hinoba-an, Negros Occidental on Monday night, Nov. 25.
Police Major Jaynick Bermudez, Hinoba-an police chief, said the 22-year-old suspect went to the house of the victim’s cousin and challenged him to a fistfight.
The victim stepped in to calm down his cousin and the suspect. However, the suspect drew a knife and stabbed the victim in the armpit.
The victim was taken to a hospital where he was declared dead.
The suspect was arrested in a follow-up operation and charged with murder.
Bermudez said that the suspect and the victim’s cousin were drunk before the incident happened.