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A fight between two men on Sunday ended with one killed and the other arrested.
The fight happened around 3 p.m. on Beach Road in the vicinity of Block 6, near the popular Golden Mile Food Center.
A 67-year-old man was found immobile at the scene. He was rushed to Tan Tock Seng Hospital, where he was pronounced dead.
Police said a 56-year-old man was arrested and will be charged with murder today.
The victim’s granddaughter, Emillia Marlinda, 22, told The New Paper that she had just left her home and was in the elevator lobby when she saw someone collapsed on the grass below her block.
He ran back to his apartment to alert his father, who came out and recognized the man.
“When my dad told me it was my grandfather, we quickly ran downstairs,” he said yesterday.
COVERED IN BLOOD
Emillia, a preschool teacher, said her grandfather’s face was covered in blood. There was also blood around her.
She said: “(My family) cried when we saw him, we couldn’t bear it. The police were doing CPR (cardiopulmonary resuscitation) on him.
“I saw the (alleged attacker) squatting to the side and had already been handcuffed by the police.”
He said he did not recognize the young man.
Breaking into tears, Ms Emillia said: “They told us they couldn’t save him. When I saw the police doing CPR on him, I knew they couldn’t save him.”
A witness told the Chinese-language Shin Min Daily News that he saw a well-built man throwing his fists at another man, who fell to the ground.
He said, “I was hitting the man’s head and body, and after the man fell to the ground, he stopped moving.
“The man then emptied the older man’s pocket and repeatedly said that (the older man) had stolen something.”
According to the witness, the alleged attacker fled the scene after the attack, but was returned by the police.
A set of dentures and a pair of glasses were also seen at the scene.
The witness said that he had spoken with the old man several times.
A 63-year-old cleaner passing through the area said he saw a man kneeling on the grass muttering to himself.
He decided to check what had happened and was surprised to see another man lying on the ground with a bloody face.
RELENTLESS, SKINNY
He said, “The (man on the ground) wasn’t moving, but the other man was still hitting him. I quickly tried to stop him and told him that if he continued, the other man would die.”
But instead of stopping, the man refused to listen and yelled at him, he added.
The cleaner said the older man was unresponsive and was breathing weakly when he later checked on it.
Ms. Emillia told TNP that her grandfather lived with her and four other family members in the area for about 10 years.
Although his grandfather had to undergo dialysis, he was still active.
She said, “He was a carefree man and he liked to roam the stairs and buy drinks for my sister. We are still trying to come to terms with his death.”
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