Jaber Youssef was stabbed three times at The Avenues Mall by a bidoon man, the newspaper said.
The bidoon are residents of Kuwait who lack citizenship.
The perpetrator, a 22-year-old who wielded a sword, stabbed Youssef in the neck, chest and heart, according to the autopsy report obtained by the daily.
Police used the mall’s security cameras to identify the man, who was arrested hours later at Bnaydar Camp for the stateless population.
Authorities are conducting a search for three individuals who the suspect says helped in the killing.
Preliminary investigation with the 22-year-old man revealed that he purchased the sword from the mall just prior to the crime but police have yet to narrow down the motive behind the killing.
A security source told al-Qabas that a friend of Youssef, who was with the dentist at the time of the assault, was wounded in his left arm with a sharp object.
The friend, the source said, told police that four people had harassed them while they were in their vehicle on their way to the mall, one of Kuwait’s largest shopping centers.
Youssef and his friend had a verbal altercation with the same four men in the mall’s parking lot minutes before they approached them inside the center.
