Jabloteh footballer killed

DWIGHT LEWIS, an 18-year-old student of the Arima Senior Comprehensive School who played professional football with Jabloteh Junior Football team under 20, was stabbed to death following a bottle-pelting incident-outside an Arima bar early yesterday. His murder is the 140th for the year so far. The teen’s father Clarence Lewis suffered a massive heart attack at his La Horquetta home early yesterday on learning that his son had died and was rushed to the Port-of-Spain General Hospital where he was resting in stable condition. An eyewitness to the stabbing death told Sunday Newsday that Lewis had accompanied him and a group of friends to Arima on Friday night. He claimed that they brought drinks, limed and then they returned to La Horquetta.

Late Friday night Lewis was invited to go to Arima on another lime and he went. Report revealed that Lewis and others purchased drinks from a bar at Queen Street, and they were liming when someone threw a bottle injuring a man with a rasta hairstyle. The man reportedly walked up to Lewis and accused him of throwing the bottle but Lewis pleaded his innocence. Reports revealed that the enraged man struck Lewis with a beer bottle and a struggle ensued. The man allegedly took the broken bottle and stabbed Lewis at the right side of the chest. He collapsed in a pool of blood. A party of officers led by Sgt Wesley Moore, Cpl Jones and others went to the scene.

Lewis was rushed to the Arima Hospital where he was pronounced dead on arrival. Police have since issued a warrant for the arrest of a 22-year old man of Maturita. Officers carried out a search for the man yesterday but he was reportedly in hiding. Azard Khan, Secretary of Jabloteh Football team said that the death of Lewis was a great loss. He said that Lewis had been with Jabloteh since he was 13 years old, and he said that he was an extremely good player. “He was always respectful, and he had a great future ahead of him in terms of  football,” said Khan.