Police are investigating after a 16-year-old boy was killed at a family gathering on Hamilton’s south east Mountain.Hamilton police are looking for the suspect following the Sunday evening incident on Cadham Boulevard.Police were called to a home on the short residential street between Upper Gage and Broughton avenues, south of Rymal Road, just after 10 p.m. July 2.Police said in Monday morning media release that family were gathered at the home when a 22-year-old male family member stabbed the teenage victim.The suspect then left the scene.The 16-year-old was taken to hospital where he died of his injuries, police say.Police had taped off the two-storey home and its driveway, loaded with four vehicles, on the corner of Cadham Boulevard and Upper Gage Avenue.Cruisers sat sentry on the street Monday morning and an officer guarded the entrance to the home.In the rear of the home, a tarp was thrown over a gazebo protecting it from the pouring rain.Police are asking that the suspect turn himself in. Anyone with information on the suspect’s whereabouts is asked to contact Detective Girgenti at 905-546-3874, or anonymously at Crime Stoppers by calling 1-800-222-8477 or online at crimestoppershamilton.com.Homicide investigators remain at the scene.More to come.Fallon Hewitt is a reporter at The Spectator. fhewitt@thespec.com
Police are investigating after a 16-year-old boy was killed at a family gathering on Hamilton’s south east Mountain.
Hamilton police are looking for the suspect following the Sunday evening incident on Cadham Boulevard.
Police were called to a home on the short residential street between Upper Gage and Broughton avenues, south of Rymal Road, just after 10 p.m. July 2.
Police said in Monday morning media release that family were gathered at the home when a 22-year-old male family member stabbed the teenage victim.
The suspect then left the scene.
The 16-year-old was taken to hospital where he died of his injuries, police say.
Police had taped off the two-storey home and its driveway, loaded with four vehicles, on the corner of Cadham Boulevard and Upper Gage Avenue.
Cruisers sat sentry on the street Monday morning and an officer guarded the entrance to the home.
In the rear of the home, a tarp was thrown over a gazebo protecting it from the pouring rain.
Police are asking that the suspect turn himself in. Anyone with information on the suspect’s whereabouts is asked to contact Detective Girgenti at 905-546-3874, or anonymously at Crime Stoppers by calling 1-800-222-8477 or online at crimestoppershamilton.com.
Homicide investigators remain at the scene.
More to come.
Fallon Hewitt is a reporter at The Spectator. fhewitt@thespec.com
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