An accused murderer allegedly drove off in the car of a man he had just stabbed to death on the Gold Coast.

The 27-year-old man is accused of stabbing a 57-year-old man to death at a unit on Dutton Street in Coolangatta after 1pm on Thursday.

The younger man was then reported to police by local workers for acting strangely.

Police were called to the Coolangatta home on Thursday afternoon. Credit: Nine

“He had a conversation with some people who were working in the area, and we’re in the process of speaking to them,” Detective Acting Inspector Michael Corby said on Friday.

“I understand there to be more than one person who probably observed him or spoke with him at that time.

“There was some construction happening, they were associated to that in some way.”

The two men were known

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