Suspect in Blankenburg murder calls from Suriname
THE suspect in the murder of 33-year-old Roschell Rodney, who was killed on Tuesday morning, made contact with the victim’s father that evening. A close relative, Lionel Crandon, who made the disclosure, told the Guyana Chronicle that the man telephoned around 18:00 hrs on Tuesday and tried to explain his reason for committing the crime.
Crandon said he got the information from Rodney’s father, whom he referred to as ‘Uncle Allen’, who said the fugitive revealed that he was in Suriname.
The alleged killer reportedly lamented that the woman did not listen to him and he became angry after she threatened to put him out of their home.
Crandon said the father-in-law asked the son-in-law why he chose such a way to deal with the situation but the caller ended the conversation.
“Uncle Allen asked him why he killed the girl; why he didn’t call and talk to them if he had problem but he cut off the phone,” Crandon related.
Her family members speculated that Rodney sounded as though he had premeditated the killing, based on his explanation.
After murdering his wife of two years, by slashing her throat and wrist and piercing her heart, Sean Rodney fled their Blankenburg, West Coast Demerara home, with six-year-old Renaldo Doris and headed for Mahaicony.
Then, in his quest to avoid arrest, abandoned his car, PNN 9420, and sent the boy, in a taxi, to meet his in-laws at Enmore, also on the East Coast of Demerara, then proceeded to flee the jurisdiction by boat.
On his return home, the child, who was terrified by what he had seen, demonstrated how the man he called ‘Uncle Sean’ slashed his wife’s throat.
The six-year-old said he asked the murderer: “Why are you doing that to aunty, Uncle Sean?” But the man, instead of answering, picked him up and carried him to the car, leaving the wounded woman lying in pools of blood.
The child said he heard the woman screaming and begging her husband not to kill her in front of the children but he went ahead and committed the act anyway.
According to the boy, the husband had gone outside and his wife locked him out but, after he begged her, she let him in.
The boy said, as the killer collected all the knives, his aunt pleaded with the stabber not to kill her in front of the little children.
The boy also said the man told him he was going in a boat and not to tell anybody.
Crandon said the Rodney couple did not have any serious problem of which the family was aware.
He said Sean Rodney is not known to be a violent person and he could not understand what could have gotten the man so frustrated that would make him want to murder his wife.
“From the time I know them, I never knew them as warring people. I look up to them and this is surprising and real traumatising for this family,” Crandon lamented. 
Police are continuing their investigations and efforts to apprehend the suspect.