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A stabbing incident on Saturday resulted in the death of a Belize City man.  Police Press Officer Raphael Martinez has the details on the incident.

RAPHAEL MARTINEZ

Police Press Officer

Belize Police Department

“On the sixth of October at 11:30pm, acting upon information received, the Police visited the Karl Heusner Memorial Hospital where they saw Kareem Dixon, thirty seven year old Belizean laborer of a Mahogany Street address suffering from an apparent stab wound to the left side of the chest.   Investigations reveal that on the sixth of October at 11pm, Kareem was at home at the above mentioned address when he allegedly got into an argument with a female who took out a knife and inflicted the wound to Dixon.  On the seventh of October at 1:45am, Kareem Dixon succumbed to his injury where his body currently awaits a post mortem examination.  Police have since detained that female, a thirty five year old, Belizean domestic of a Belize City address pending charges.”