A BRAWL outside of the popular “Pink Shop” at Greenwich Park, East Bank Essequibo on New Year’s Night has left a 22-year-old man dead.Eyewitnesses said that Dewaun Baksh sought to intervene in an altercation involving his younger brother when he was brutally stabbed to death on the roadside.
At the time of his death, the 22-year-old Baksh lived at Tiger Bay, Tuschen, East Bank Essequibo with his relatives. He returned to Guyana last March, after spending six years in Barbados, and so last Christmas was very special for his relatives and friends, his twin brother Dewane told the Guyana Chronicle.

Dewane said his brother was asleep for most of New Year’s Day, having partied on Old Year’s Night. In the afternoon, Dewaun and his younger brother Rafeek and three friends headed out to continue the holiday celebrations.

During the course of the night, Dewane said, Rafeek had “a talk” with a former acquaintance with whom he had had an argument sometime in the past. They all lived at Zeelugt, East Bank Essequibo at the time, before the Baksh family moved to Tuschen.

It was during an apparent argument between Rafeek and the other man that Dewaun intervened and the argument got even more heated.

Rafeek told his relatives that he walked away to leave the scene, but was hit in the head with a bottle or some other object.
It is then that the brawl broke out, and Dewaun was stabbed in several parts of his body, and was later pronounced dead.

Police are currently hunting three suspects known to Rafeek and his other friends.

Dewaun had hoped to return to Barbados later this month to continue his work there.

Apart from Rafeek and his twin brother, Dewaun leaves to mourn his sister Shazeena, his parents, and other relatives and friends.