…fishmonger also killed in North West
A team of investigators has been dispatched to Star Backdam area, North West district (NWD) following the suspected murder of Richard Melville Titus, 30, of 29 Second Street, Alberttown, Georgetown on Tuesday.
The man’s wife, Hodiaha Burke, told the Guyana Chronicle that she received the news of his death via a telephone call from his friends saying he was killed during an argument in front of a shop at Five Star Landing, NWD.
She added that Titus, who worked on a dredge, had succumbed to a stab wound during the row.
The grieving woman, wiping away tears, said that he had been working in the interior since he was 17.
The police reported that Titus’ body was found by public-spirited persons in the Five Star Backdam area, North West District, on March 9 last. The body is at the Port Kaituma mortuary.
On Monday, another man was stabbed to death in the NWD. Eyewitnesses saw a man leaving the shack in which murder victim Lawrence Martindale, 45, of ‘B’ Field, Sophia, Greater Georgetown, was staying at Port Kaituma, police reported.
Martindale was fatally stabbed on Monday after selling fish in the area.
At the time, he was in possession of some $100,000, proceeds from his fishmonger business, with which he was expected to return home this week.
He had left his home on Thursday and travelled to Port Kaituma where he was the guest of a friend.
Police suspect that Martindale was killed and robbed, as no money was found on his body.
The man’s wife, Lorraine Martindale, told the Guyana Chronicle she learnt of his killing from the police, who telephoned her, after finding his cellular phone with her number stored in it.
The body of the father of six bore several stab wounds.