THE suspect in the Boxing Day murder of carpenter Ravindra Sookhoo, 24, of Lot 154 Belle Vue, West Bank Demerara, was still on the run at press time last night. The victim was stabbed in his mother-in-law’s house during a family gathering and his widow, Savitri Singh, who is left to care for their two children, told the Guyana Chronicle, yesterday, that she is looking for a photograph of her brother-in-law, believed to be in hiding.
She said, since the killing, the wanted man fled the scene and disappeared but she will hand over his picture to the Police.
Singh said she, her husband and their sons were about to return home after being at her mother’s Diamond, East Bank Demerara house and it was during a misunderstanding there that Sookhoo was killed.
Police said it happened about 19:00 hrs on December 26, when Sookhoo and his attacker were among those imbibing and an argument developed between the two and he was fatally wounded.
Singh, 21, embracing her sons, Ryan, three and Robin, two, said she was putting sandals on one of them, when her husband urged her to hurry up and the couple exchanged words.
She said her husband dealt her a slap on the face and, as her brother-in-law intervened on her behalf, a scuffle ensued.
Singh said the two men started a fight and, after she took the children on the verandah, she saw her husband clutching his bleeding stomach.
He, subsequently, collapsed and died at Diamond Hospital where he was taken for emergency treatment.