Overview
- Police in Katherine, called to a reported stabbing Sunday evening, found a 19-year-old in a car with a severe stab wound.
- Officers gave first aid and drove him to a temporary field hospital because an ambulance was 10 minutes away and the clinic was three minutes away.
- He died soon after arrival, and police classified the case as a death in custody, the territory’s third such case in a week.
- Investigators charged Tyreece Paul Craig McGregor-Brown, 19, with murder and two counts of recklessly endangering serious harm, and he is due in Katherine Local Court today.
- Police allege he stepped into a fistfight between two males and used a large knife, and the second victim, 18, was airlifted to Darwin and was listed as critical on Monday.