Man stabbed with ice pick in Orange Walk

Published by Chris Garcia at May 9, 2016

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Posted: Monday, May 9, 2016. 11:46 a.m. CST

By BBN Staff: An Orange Walk man was detained by police on Saturday night for the stabbing of 25-year-old Linsford Daniel Rabateu, with an ice pick while socializing at a friend’s residence.

Officers visited the Northern Regional Hospital at around 7:15 p.m. and saw Rabateu with a stab wound to his chest. He told officers that 15 minutes earlier, a man he knew as Ruben Perez, 26, got into an argument with him and then inflicted the wound.

The victim had gone to a friend’s house and upon arrival, saw that his friend along with three other male persons were playing checkers and under the influence of alcohol.

As a result of the stabbing, Perez is pending charges for dangerous harm.

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