THE mining town of linden in Region 10 was plunged into shock and deep mourning after word got around of the gruesome murder of four-year-old Jamal Niranjan of Buck Hill Wismar, Linden, by his step-father . The Guyana Chronicle was told that the man was caught raping the 17- year- old sister of the child’s mother, who also happens to be the sister-in-law of the man who killed the child and is now on the run.
Last evening, the man was apprehended by the police.

Immediately after the stabbing, the child was rushed to the Mackenzie Hospital with several gaping stab wounds about his body. When he arrived at the Mackenzie Hospital a knife was still lodged in his body.
Thesuspect, Rawle Samuels, 24, was once a postman.
Meanwhile, a woman in Linden told this publication that she saw the 17-year-old girl running and the man in hot pursuit and shouted to the man to leave the girl alone.
The woman said that the man then stopped and seconds after she saw the little boy and heard him shouting “run auntie, run”. It was then that the man grabbed the child by his hand and flung him over his shoulder.
She claimed that the man ignored her and went into the house with the child, after which she immediately ran to the police station.
She said that she decided to run to the police station after she saw the anger in the man’s face and his desperation to do something bad. She told the police that they needed to act quickly since there was a man  trying to kill a little child.
As word of the horrific and senseless killing of the child made the rounds, several social network sites were saturated with postings and comments in relation to the matter.