Dominican teen arrested for stabbing death in Guadeloupe

Scene where the incident took place. Photo: Roberto Birhus/ France-Antilles
Scene where the incident took place. Photo: Roberto Birhus/ France-Antilles

A Dominican teenager, who is a suspected in the stabbing death of another teenager in Guadeloupe, has been arrested.

France-Antilles reports the 15-year-old teenager was arrested on Thursday morning at the home of a relative in Saint-François, where he was hiding.

He will be questioned by crime investigators in the coming hours.

Reports are that the teenager stabbed another teen to death with either a pair of scissors or a knife in Abymes on Tuesday, September 13, 2016 at around 5:45 pm.

The reports further stated that Yohann Equinoxe was stabbed multiple times after classes when he was on his way home. The attacker fled the scene. A phone was allegedly involved.

The suspect was identified hours after the incident.

He was born in Dominica August 2, 2001.

Investigators in Guadeloupe have revealed that investigations for voluntary manslaughter, together with attempted theft with a weapon, has been opened against the teenager. If found guilty, he faces a sentence of life behind bars.

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26 Comments

  1. dorville
    September 17, 2016

    In Guadeloupe, many young people of Dominica commit acts of delinquency and live in poverty and précarité.Il are less than a month, one of Dominica in an irregular situation who had assaulted a pregnant woman was prosecuted by the police. He hit the arm police with a machete, wounding him seriously. Other police had to shoot him to stop him. The population is angry. A young student of 15 who was waiting for the bus to go home received seven stab wounds or scissors. It is unacceptable. All communities living in Guadeloupe live in harmony as long as parents take responsibility and educate their children properly

  2. mine
    September 17, 2016

    If at fifteen he is killing for phone, what will become of him in his adulthood. Parents talk to your children don’t be envy of what others have. STOP being materialistic cause you will end up in trouble when you can’t afford what you want.

  3. TellingtheTruth
    September 16, 2016

    A lot of these young men/ teenage boys over here in Guadeloupe, have no moral or spiritual finer.
    I live over here. I’m not Dominican, but I have observed a lot of their base ways.
    A lot of them have been mostly brought up in single patented homes (their mother’s from Dominica, and their father Guadeloupean). These women are usually the concubine of these men, thus, there is no attachment or acknowledgement from their father’s. They then, as a consequence, lack love.
    I’ve seen them on the streets of Guadeloupe, their jeans half way down their skinny hips, snatching chains from unsuspecting passerbys etc.
    Unless social , spiritual and morality is addressed, this will still occur..

    • Are you trying to say “brought” up in single parent homes?” Well if that is the case learn to spell before you wash your dirty mouth on any Dominican, especially our women!

      You know; if its one time it crossed my mind to kick a human in his/her backside, if I had the opportunity to do so, you would be that piece of crap! Maybe your mother serve the purpose of a concubine, hence your experience with her has affected you psychologically, as a result you see other women as concubines, you need to take a hike, and jump off a cleft.

      You are not from Dominica what; who cares where the hell you from; if you are not from Dominica, and not from Guadeloupe, you might be criminal from somewhere committing more crimes in Guadeloupe than the Dominicans on whom you are washing your dirty mouth!

      Man shut up and stop talking crap about our people; damn idiot, talking rubbish!

    • “A lot of these young men/ teenage boys over here in Guadeloupe, have no moral or spiritual finer.”

      You that idiot with no name are stereotyping; do you know how many Dominicans got killed in Guadeloupe by men native to Guadeloupe? The reason they murdered our people is because they are ignorant, and un-civilized! I am not condoning what occurred, but hell, your nasty venom you have spiewed is as if Dominicans living in Guadeloupe are the lowest of the low. Who the hell are you man?

      Do you know how many times fishermen from Dominica would be fishing in the waters, in Dominica, territorial waters, between Guadeloupe, when fishermen from Gaudloupe would literally shoot after them preventing from catching God fish out of the waters. That was very common in the late 1950’s, where the hell were you when all of this was taking place.

      You talk about morality? You do not know the meaning of the word, it is the moral of the Guadeloupean which cause them to attempt to murder…

  4. Tell the Facts
    September 15, 2016

    He committed this crime. Knowing they were searching for him, he hid at his family’s residence. I wonder if the family knew about it. It would have been better for him if he had turned himself in to the Police. Sooner or later they would have found him.
    He is an underage teenager, considered a minor and should have been attending school. How long was he residing in Guadeloupe? Was he landed or not? Was he attending school or not?
    The Law should keep a tab on teenagers from other countries who either migrate there or are visiting. If it is during the school year, these children should be required to attend school. Parents or family members who are their guardians should encourage them to do so. They should not merely be out on the street and living idly. Satan finds some mischief for idle hands to do.
    This teenager has some explaining to do, why he decided to steal the phone and when he could not get it, stabbed his victim to death.

    • Tjebe fort
      September 16, 2016

      Facts, a lot of our people go to Guadeloupe illegally and hiding in the community, that not easily reports them to the authorities. You cannot go to Guadeloupe even with your Dominican passport just so, you know. So these people do not show up on any record you understand. So to make a living a lot of them commit crime, especially selling drugs that mostly are smuggled from Dominica itself, especially the north.

      • Tell the Facts
        September 16, 2016

        This is a huge problem in Guadeloupe. When they are caught, they will be deported to Dominica. This would create another problem, in Dominica, for they will be bitter about it.
        If only, especially the youths could be rehabilitated.

  5. Zor Bon La
    September 15, 2016

    I hope they also arrest the family member who was helping him to hide. Charge them with aiding and abetting and obstruction of justice. Si e pas ni soutiweh e pas ni voleur. You may have tried to raise your son right but he fell off track. He needs to face the consequences of his actions. He may have been a nice loving child but at that moment he became an angry killer. Someone lost their child. You need to give them closure also. You may get the opportunity to see your child in prison but he has denied them the opportunity to ever see their child again. Do not help the alleged perpetrators. Let them understand the need to behave.

    With that said, may justice prevail. May he have his day in court and a fair trial.

  6. Bumbble Lee
    September 15, 2016

    Send him here to Dominica where he is sure to get bailed. Ah huh..

    • Tell the Facts
      September 15, 2016

      Let him remain in Guadeloupe. He is not from there and this is where he committed the crime. It is no petty crime.
      The people of Guadeloupe are extremely angry with him. He will receive the full brunt of the Law.
      I hope his defense will not say to the Judge, “This is his first offense and he did not waste the Court’s time.” This would get anybody angry; worst yet his victim’s family.
      If he does not serve a lifetime, he will, eventually be deported back to Dominica unless his family in Guadeloupe pleads on his behalf to remain there.

    • Gods precious
      September 15, 2016

      Thats nt a wise idea let him pay for his crime. Thats hoe they learn n behave. Life inprisonment hmmm wen he see his ass growning old n turning grey behind them bars his ask himself a dam question.

  7. JUSTICE
    September 15, 2016

    Most if not all the Dominican parents in Guadeloupe are not good examples to their children! They didn’t do a good job with the upbringing of their children! From what i’ve seen with the children of Dominican parentage, most of them are no good and have bad behavior!

    • concerned
      September 16, 2016

      I am a Dominican parent living in Guadeloupe and I completely disagree with you. A handfull of malcassé children should not deprive the hard working ones. I know children of dominican parentage who are teachers, lawyers, doctors, nurses to name a few who came from single parent homes. no matter how good you raise a child, his mind, heart as a teenager, you can never make it.

  8. beautiful lady
    September 15, 2016

    To bad for him, give him life, a young boy in Dominica did the something to my Son, thank God my Son gave him the phone, that’s why he isn’t dead today.

  9. mine
    September 15, 2016

    Why keep doing these crimes giving dominca a bad name. I hope Guadelopians don’t retaliate on this
    like they did in 1989 when the domincan raped the woman. Why would you kill over a stupid phone. I feel bad for both parents.

    • Me
      September 15, 2016

      Well, they may retaliate by not coming to our WCMF festival next month and who would blame them?

  10. Shameless
    September 15, 2016

    Lock him up and throw away the keys. Far too many Dcans young, old and in-between are committing these heinous crimes in the neighboring countries while in the process putting peace loving citizens from our country in these islands at risk. Enough is enough. If he man enough to kill the person child why he hiding? He lucky some crazy fwansay did not get a hold of him before the police because he would not have been there for a trial. I beg you Dcans in foreign (no matter where) to please consider yourselves guests in other peoples countries and westay-chan-chill (behave yourselves).

    Soon his mother, aunty, nenen, pawhen and par-bonda will come on TV crying and proclaiming how great a kid he is and is not him bu his spirit do it :twisted: :twisted: :twisted: :twisted:

    Always Assertive! :twisted:

    • koule wyyayi
      September 16, 2016

      I feel you and agree but, the system is so bad to have all those fancy gadgets, best smart phone, tablets ext, because their peer pressure in school show off so much, the kids want it too. Some parent cannot afford it so, the kids robbed and kill for it. The system do this to them. It was not like that when I was growing up. Now one cannot even get a pay phone to call 911.

  11. Jonathan St Jean
    September 15, 2016

    He can count his lucky stars that as part of Europe he won’t be sentenced to death if found guilty.They commit crimes and then run away all and hide like the cowards that they are

  12. Faceup
    September 15, 2016

    All he gets is 20 years which is lifetime. Wey papa…

    • Tell the Facts
      September 15, 2016

      He will have to bear this murder for the rest of his life. He may be haunted by it as the blood of his victim is crying to Heaven for vengeance.

  13. Me
    September 15, 2016

    The alleged murderer was apprehended at the residence of one of his parents in St.Francois where he was in hiding. Apparently he already has had two or three brushes with the law in the past but so far has a clean sheet.

  14. cameron
    September 15, 2016

    Parents need to instill in their kids what you see others have do not envy,@15 years old i had a job and worked hard. Always bought the things i wanted with my hard earned cash,but cant always blame the child some of the parents are no good of an example,sad world we all are living in,no compassion for life anymore,now a mother and father has to bury a son. :(

    • Tell the Facts
      September 15, 2016

      This is real heartache for them. They did not expect it. Consider how shocked they were when they were notified of what happened to their son. They must be inconsolable.

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