Indian student on two murder charges
AN Indian student, 22, faces court today charged with the murder of two other Indians after a fight over money, it is believed.
AN Indian student, 22, faces court today charged with the murder of two other Indians after a fight over money, it is believed.
A 19-year-old man and a 20-year-old man died after an argument about living arrangements and financial matters ended in violence at a rented unit in Morley, in Perth's east, at about 4am (WST) yesterday.
A 22-year-old man was questioned by police then later charged with two counts of murder.
Detective Inspector David Bryson said early investigations pointed to a dispute over money as the trigger for the incident.
"Essentially that's it - there's been a dispute about money and things have obviously escalated,'' he told reporters.
"It's obviously taken a life of its own from there.''
The detective said a badly injured 20-year-old man made his way to a St John Ambulance depot at Morley at about 4am (WST) yesterday.
He told ambulance officers that another man lay injured in a nearby street.
The man who reported to ambulance officers was taken to hospital but died later from his injuries.
The body of a 19-year-old man was found outside a unit in Morley, where both men were believed to have lived with "a bunch of friends'', Det Insp Bryson said.
The Major Crime Squad confirmed all three men involved in the altercation were Indian nationals.
The two deceased men both held current overseas student visas, while the 22-year-old was living in Australia on an international student visa.
The deceased men's names would not be released until relatives in India had been notified, a statement from WA Police said.
Det Insp Bryson could not say if the incident may have been related to a drug debt and would not reveal the injuries sustained by either man.