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Jul 14, 2011
Man held over death of drinking buddy
By Danson Cheong
A 50-YEAR-OLD man was arrested on Thursday for the alleged murder of a 47-year-old security guard in Toa Payoh on Wednesday evening.
Police said they picked up a suspect in the wee hours of the morning.
The suspect and his alleged victim, believed to have been drinking buddies, were understood to have been having a tipple at Block 128 Toa Payoh Lorong 1, when a quarrel they were having turned into a fight.
They are both Toa Payoh residents, though it is believed neither lived in the vicinity of the block.
Police said they were alerted by a call just before 8pm that a man was lying injured in the ground floor lift lobby of the block.
He was sent to Tan Tock Seng Hospital where he died just before dawn yesterday.
Read the full story in Friday's edition of The Straits Times.
