GR TAXI driver Shafeek Mohammed, 40, of 116 Marshall Street, Annandale, ECD is reportedly on the run after allegedly stabbing to death his brother-in-law Ramkarran Mohan Lall, 33, of Coldingen, East Coast Demerara (ECD) on Wednesday night.The dead man, a father of five, was allegedly stabbed four times about the body, and was pronounced dead at the Georgetown Public Hospital.

His eldest child is nine years old, whilst the ages of his other children are six, five, two, and one year old.

According to the wife of the deceased, Latchminie Singh, the two men had an ongoing argument, which led to an abrupt confrontation that caused “my sister’s husband to pull out a dagger and stab (my husband) four times after an argument that started in the house.”

After the stabbing, she said, the assailant, a taxi driver, boarded his vehicle and fled the scene.

She said the altercation occurred in front of her mother-in-law’s house in Marshall Street, Annandale ECD.

Her reputed husband had been a mechanic by trade, she disclosed, describing him as a popular and well-known mechanic. “He was a loving father and a good man. I don’t know why this had to happen,” she lamented.