After Charlestown massacre…
AN ATMOSPHERE of gloom prevailed yesterday among the relatives of both Cedric Blackman and Ann Chan-A-Koon, who were hacked to death by berserk William Lyte on Tuesday, as they began making funeral arrangements.
While the killer is still in Police custody, it would be more difficult for the Blackman family to put the incident behind them, after their money and other valuables were stolen by burglars who broke into their Lot 57 Russell and Howes Streets, Charlestown, Georgetown home, while they were elsewhere Tuesday night.
The dead Blackman’s daughter, Karen McCammon told the Guyana Chronicle that Police visited the burglary scene on Wednesday and took statements after detaining a suspect.
They are to revisit as they continue investigating, as well, the massacre in which Blackman and Cham-A-Koon were killed and Radesh Persaud and Sean De Souza injured.
Chan-A-Koon’s relatives are awaiting a post mortem examination, scheduled to be performed on her body today, prior to her Tuesday burial.
The dead woman’s eldest daughter, Rabia, 19, said the family was still in shock yesterday but thankful that the life of their relative, Persaud, was spared.
He was attacked at Lot 60 Russell Street by Lyte, who also chopped De Souza, 41, of Lot 58 Howes Street.
Persaud is recovering but still tramautised by the incident but De Souza remains a patient in the High Dependency Unit (HDU) of Georgetown Public Hospital (GPH), following surgery to repair several severed blood vessels at the back of his neck.
Lyte, previously a seemingly normal individual, unleashed a reign of terror when he armed himself with a cutlass he had been sharpening for several days and butchered to death his relative, Blackman, at whose home he often stayed and had breakfast that morning, as well as Chan-A-Koon, her head almost severed by chop wounds.
After the killings and woundings, Lyte put his cutlass on the ground and allowed the Police to arrest him.