Teen dies on Valentine’s Day, weeks after ‘love affair’ stabbing incident

DEAD: Joshua Faerber

Eighteen-year-old Joshua Faerber of 382 Stanleytown, West Bank Demerara died early Tuesday morning while a patient at the Georgetown Public Hospital.

Faerber was admitted to the facility on January 18, 2023 nursing multiple stab wounds which were inflicted on him by a jealous 17-year-old young man of Tucville, Georgetown.

Just after 03:30hrs on Valentine’s Morning, Faerber succumbed while still in the Intensive Care Unit of the Hospital where he has been since emergency surgeries were conducted on him back in January. After the stabbing as he never regained consciousness.

In January, Faerber was standing at the ‘BIG Yard’ in Tucville conversing with a 14-year-old friend when the 17-year-old suspect approached the two and accused Faerber of having an affair with his (the 17-Y-O’s) girlfriend.

The two young men got into an altercation and the 17-year-old left in a rage and returned some moment later.

As he approached with a rage, Faerber began running but was chased after by the 17-Y-O who after catching up with Faerber, inflicted several stab wounds on the body before. The 18-Year-Old fell to the ground and the 17-Y-O took the knife out of a wound, tossed it onto the road, and left the scene.

Faerber was picked up and rushed to the hospital and immediately sent into emergency surgery.

The 17-Y-O was charged with attempted murder but with this latest development, the suspect is now expected to be charged with murder.