Police from Dangriga Town are also getting ready to charge a woman for allegedly stabbing 18-year-old Eden Pauline Nunez.
At around 1:30 a.m. on Friday, she was out a night spot socializing with friends when she had a misunderstanding with other patrons. That incident escalated when she was stabbed by a female known to the cops.
Police told us today that it it all started when Nunez accidentally knocked over her assailant's drink:
ASP Fitzroy Yearwood, Communications Director, Belize Police Department
"We have received a report of a stabbing incident in Dangriga where on the 17th December, police responded to a report where they visited the Southern Regional Hospital and observed Eden Pauline Nunez, eighteen years, with a stab wound to the back. Initial investigation reveal that sometime around 1:30 a.m., Eden Nunez was socialising with two of her friends at Island Breeze Restaurant where she accidentally knocked over a drink that was on a table belonging to a female, known to the police. An argument ensued and Eden walked away. When she turned around, she realised that she was being followed by a young lady Crystal who inflicted the stab wound to her. We know that she was rushed to the hospital where she was placed under observation, listed in a stable condition."
