Revelations after Charlestown murders…
ANN Chan-A-Koon, 38, one of two persons killed in the Charlestown, Georgetown chopping rampage Tuesday morning, is a Guyanese who had been living in Antigua for almost seven years, but returned to Guyana four months ago.
The mother of two was also staying with relatives at Lot 60 Russell Street, Charlestown when she was hacked to death by cutlass wielding William Whyte.
Chan-a-Koon had decided to remigrate to her homeland.
Post mortem examinations will be performed tomorrow on the bodies of the woman and Cedric Blackman, 75, of Lot 57 Russell and Howes Streets, Charlestown, who was also butchered by the killer.
Two other men, Radesh Persaud, of Lot 38 Russell Street and Sean De Souza, of Lot 58 Howes Street, were wounded in the attack by the berserk killer. Persaud was treated for his injuries and discharged but De Souza remained a patient at Georgetown Public Hospital (GPH) yesterday.
De Souza’s wife, Sherry told the Guyana Chronicle yesterday that her mechanic husband underwent a surgical operation on Tuesday to repair several blood vessels which were severed by the multiple chops he suffered on his back, neck, hands, feet and shoulder.
He is in the High Dependency Unit (HDU) of the GPH and is in a stable condition.
Relatives of Chan-A-Koon told this newspaper that funeral arrangements are being made to bury her by Tuesday but are awaiting the arrival of the father of Sul-Lin Wallace, her eight months old daughter, whose elder sister, Rabia, 19, resides with her father on Independence Boulevard, also in the city.
Meantime, Sul-Lin is being cared for by her aunt until a decision is made about who gets custody of her.
Relatives also said that Sul-Lin’s father had indicated, before hearing of her murder, that he wanted to visit Guyana and surprise Chan-A-Koon for the Christmas season.
She was cooking when she ventured outside the house where she was staying after hearing cries for help from her relative, Persaud, on his being attacked.
Lyte pounced on her at the corner of Howes and Russell Streets and dealt her two chops, one of which almost severed her head.

TOTALLY SHOCKING

Blackman’s wife, Philomena Lancaster said the incident was totally shocking to the family as Lyte often chatted and joked with them every day.
The woman said he never acted as if he was troubled but she realised that he was upset about something on Tuesday morning when he went to their home for breakfast. She  did not pay attention to him until he chopped her husband dead while the latter was having his meal on a sofa near a door.
Blackman was Lyte’s first victim and it was he, who would usually shield Lyte from the many family taunts.
Lancaster said Lyte was a regular church goer and worshipped at Enmore, East Coast Demerara but had a regular job in their neighbourhood, where he plied his masonry and carpentry trades.
She said Lyte would always buy things from the shop she has and even stayed at the home, being a relative who hailed from Berbice.
Following the murder of Blackman, the family spent Tuesday night with other city relatives and burglars took the opportunity to break into the unoccupied house.
Blackman’s daughter, Karen McCammon said she was at neighbours when she heard a noise Tuesday night but saw nothing when she investigated it. However, yesterday morning, a relative reported that two cans of paint and a water pump that belongs to them were on the roadway.
The Police were summoned and they arrested a man with similar sky blue paint on his hands. Still, she believes more than one person was involved in the burglary as the whole house was ransacked and money, jewels, important documents and all the stock in the shop were stolen.
McCammon suspects that entry was gained by breaking a window at the back of the building and using a ladder that was placed by Lyte because he was supposed to start repainting the place shortly.
She said the burglars also stole $41,000 and clothing among her belongings and helped themselves to her mother’s jewels and $200,000 she had, together with documents, including her pension books and transport for the property.
Up to press time, the Police had not yet gone to the burglary scene although McCammon and other relatives visited a station and reminded them by telephone.