A 16-year-old boy is dead after a stabbing at a family gathering, Hamilton police say, and his 22-year-old cousin is in custody and charged with murder.
Police said they were called to a home on east Hamilton Mountain around 10 p.m. ET Sunday. They said the teen was transferred to a hospital, where he died.
Laureano Bistoyong has been charged with first-degree murder.
According to police, Bistoyong fled his family home on Cadham Boulevard and Upper Gage, near Rymal Road, after the stabbing.
Hamilton police have a 22-year-old in custody after a teen was stabbed at a famiy gathering Sunday and died in hospital. (Cara Nickerson/CBC)
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