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A quarrel over bursting crackers ended in the murder of a 20-year-old youth at Purathakudi village in Tiruchi district on Sunday (November 8, 2026) evening.
The Samayapuram police have named C. Donald and J. Edison as the accused in the murder of X. Chrisopher (20). Both the victim and the accused were from Purathakudi village.
Police sources said Christopher was bursting crackers along with his friends at Purathakudi on Sunday evening when Donald and Edison were passing through the street at that time. The two allegedly abused Christopher and his friends for bursting crackers in the middle of the road and asked them to burst it on the roadside, resulting in a quarrel between them.
In a fit of rage, Donald allegedly stabbed Christopher in the left side of his chest using a tester screwdriver. When Christopher’s friend Ranjith intervened, he was allegedly assaulted by the accused and stabbed in his face causing injuries.
Sources said Christopher was rushed to a private hospital at Samayapuram where the duty doctor declared him dead. The body was shifted to the Mahatma Gandhi Memorial Government Hospital at Tiruchi for autopsy.
Ranjith is undergoing treatment at a private hospital. The Samayapuram police have registered a case of murder on a complaint from Christopher’s father Xavier Lawrence.
Published – November 09, 2026 02:21 pm IST
