(Kaieteur News) – A Rose Hall, Corentyne labourer is dead and a 20-year-old construction worker is in police custody following a fatal stabbing that occurred during a drinking session among friends on Sunday night.

Naresh Seecharran, 27, a father of one, was fatally stabbed in the neck at Haswell, Port Mourant, Corentyne, reportedly after an argument with the suspect escalated into a physical altercation. Police say the incident occurred late Sunday evening.

Seecharran’s mother, Radha Seecharran of Glasgow Village, East Bank Berbice, told Kaieteur News on Monday that she last spoke with her son by phone on Sunday afternoon. During that call, she said, he told her he loved her and wanted to come home. Realising he was intoxicated, she asked one of his friends, identified only as Balram, to look after him for the evening, and told her son she would come for him the following day.