Man Stabbed to Death, ‘Attackers were Strangers’

Earlier today, we reported that police are investigating the death of 28-year-old Selvin Humes, who was found with stab wounds on November 7 in Independence Village, Stann Creek. Humes’s cousin, Jeremy Garbutt, spoke to News 5 about the tragic news. “All of us, the family, were stressing… who hands he was under… I never knew the man would distance himself from us like that,” Garbutt said. He explained that Humes had moved out three weeks ago and had been distancing himself from the family. 

“He wasn’t a troubled person… He just chilled. He just chilled. He didn’t talk to anyone less,” he said. Garbutt described how he first heard about the incident, saying, “I get the news like everybody else… my auntie Arlene… called me almost 11 o’clock… two fellas came in and were intoxicated… they just tell me, ‘I hear your cousin just get stabbed up.'” 

According to Garbutt, the attackers were strangers to his cousin, as he has never seen them socialising with Humes. 

Humes’s body was transported to the Southern Regional Hospital for a post-mortem examination.