Murdered Leopold Street man was a ‘Peeping Tom’ – killed by residents after alarm raised by woman he was peeping

 

THREE persons have been arrested and the police are hunting for two others who were believed to be part of a group of men who surrounded the shack of 51-year-old Deon Macey and fatally stabbed him early Wednesday morning.Crime Chief Wendell Blanhum told this publication that the deceased was a “pervert” and was in the habit of peeping young girls and women while they were in various modes of undress.

It all happened in the yard in which he resided, but his luck ran out when he was observed peeping through a hole at a woman who was at the time changing her clothes.
She raised an alarm, and the men in the yard responded by surrounding the small apartment in which Macey lived. In the ensuing confrontation, they overpowered and fatally stabbed Macey to the chest and abdomen, before leaving him in a sitting position until his corpse was removed by undertakers in the presence of the police.

Macey had been a drug addict, and whenever he was “high” he habitually peeped at females while they were bathing, undressing, or sleeping in the large yard in which he lived. He had previously been warned, but on Wednesday he was brutally murdered when caught red-handed committing the act once again.

Police had initially reported that Macey was killed during a fight with a group of men following an argument, at about 06:50 hrs on Wednesday. He occupied a small shack at Lot 67-68 Leopold Street, Werk-en-Rust, Georgetown in a yard which has a large house with several apartments occupied by scores of residents. Occupants of the yard told reporters that they did not hear anything which indicated there had been a fight that eventually led to murder.

Macey’s bloodied body was found in a slouched position in his modest apartment, which had spots of blood on the ground and walls. The police were summoned after calls to Macey had gone unanswered, and upon checking at his apartment, his body was discovered by residents.

Macey was last seen alive at about 02:00 hrs on the day of his demise, when he had said he was going on a “fine hustle.”

By Michel Outridge

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