CRIME Chief Seelall Persaud said, yesterday, that the lone suspect, who was in custody following the fatal stabbing of Jamal Harris, 19, of Lot 82 Joseph Pollydore Street, Lodge, Georgetown, has been released.

The Deputy Commissioner of Police (Law Enforcement) said his release, pending further investigations, was on the advice of Director of Public Prosecutions (DPP) Shalimar Ali-Hack.
Persaud said Harris was killed during an act of self-defence during the armed robbery of a vendor at the Kitty Seawall, also in Georgetown, early Monday morning.
The top police officer said the vendor held onto to the robber’s gun while the victim was armed with a knife and the man who had been detained went to the aid of the seller who was being attacked.
Harris, a maintenance technician employed by the New Guyana Pharmaceutical Corporation (GPC), had left his home Sunday and went to a creek with some friends in a rented car.
About 03:00 hrs on Monday, he was conveyed to the Georgetown Public Hospital (GPH) by someone, who abandoned the vehicle in the compound and fled.
Harris was pronounced dead on arrival at the institution.