Youth killed during fight over bird

SHELTON Jordon a 21-year-old cigarette vendor was on Tuesday morning stabbed to death after he allegedly attempted to rob another man of his bird.

Reports are that at around 05:30hrs on Tuesday, a man with his bird cage in hand went running to the GPL Power Station in Sophia while begging the security to open the gate. The security refused to open the gate, in accordance with their policy of not allowing strangers into the compound. Shortly after, a man rode up on a motorcycle and demanded the bird from the other man who refused. The man on the motorcycle was later identified as Jordon. His victim refused to hand over the bird and Jordon whipped out a scissors and advanced to the owner of the bird who took evasive postures and picked up a piece of wood which had nail on it. Jordon began attempting to stab his victim with the scissors and the man lashed him with the wood. At that point Jordon retreated and picked up a brick and tossed it at his victim and a fight ensued.

At that point, Jordon’s victim whipped out a knife and attempted to defend himself as he found that his attacker was not giving up. He reportedly dealt Jordon a stab to his side but refusing to give up after falling to the ground, Jordon crawled and attempted to pick up a piece of wood to continue the attack on his victim. The man reached to prevent him from getting the wood and they began fighting, rolling over each other on the ground. They both suffered injures with the victim managing to gain the upper hand and dealt Jordon a fatal bore.

It was reported that after that, the man went to the Prashad Nagar Police Outpost and reported the incident and the police arrived and took control of the scene. When the Guyana Chronicle arrived at the location onlookers were out in their numbers, even as the police cordoned off the area and commenced their investigations under the watchful eyes of onlookers including relatives of the dead man.
They told reporters that they cannot understand why Jordon would want to rob someone of their bird. One relative said that it was just “wickedness” on his part as he did not need to get involved in such.

Jordan’s family was composed to some extent even as his body was being carried away by undertakers.

However his girlfriend of seven years, Kimberly Beckles, said that she last saw her partner when he left their home at around midnight on Monday. She said that she was at home when she received a call from Trinidad informing her that the young man was lying on the road dead. After news about the incident began circulating, a woman contacted this newspaper to inform that in February of this year, Jordon also stole a bird from her partner as the bird was in its cage on a lantern pole through the street.
She alleged that on the morning in question, they observed the man riding up and down the street and they became suspicious of him, but as soon as they took their eyes off of him he took the bird and rode off. Asked by this newspaper how are they certain it was Jordan who stole the bird, the woman said that they recognised him by his face. In March, Jordon’s apartment located in Castello Housing Scheme was completely gutted. Back then, persons who lived in the area said that the young man is hardly every home and would leave his appliances and other items plugged in for days and have his air conditioning unit running unattended.

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