Tiger Bay resident brutally stabbed to death – suspect in custody
Friends in deep shock, lament over the man’s killing in Tiger Bay yesterday
Friends in deep shock, lament over the man’s killing in Tiger Bay yesterday

WHAT started yesterday as a weird demonic possession ended in death, with a 19-year-old gruesomely murdering a man at his home on Queen Street, Tiger Bay in Georgetown. The teen allegedly inflicted some 22 stab wounds on the hapless ‘Rasta Man’, as he lay sleeping on the ground.
The gruesome act, neighbours say, was preceded with the killing of a cat which the teen stunted and trampled on a nearby roof, before coming down to senselessly take the life of the man who had been sharing the tiny hut with a friend for the last seven months or so.

A friend of the deceased points to the entrance to the house in which he was murdered
A friend of the deceased points to the entrance to the house in which he was murdered

Linen and clothing on which the now dead man was lying were heavily soaked with blood, and elsewhere on the floor there were spatters of blood.
The incident happened sometime after 16:00 hrs, and neighbours recalled looking down from a higher building and seeing the lad kill the cat. On getting down, he walked around another building in the heavily clustered ‘shanty town’ abode, and it was then that the residents lost sight of him.
But little did they know that he had entered the house where ‘Rasta Man’ was sleeping. Another witness, whose name was given as Wayne Rogers, recalled that after killing the cat, the lad was seen sharpening a knife and rubbing his fingers along the blade.
Meanwhile, another neighbour, Neil Seales, who made the gruesome discovery, recalled that he went to the house where ‘Rasta’ was sleeping and asked him where was their neighbour Nichola Clarke, who was always kind to him but he seemed tired and sleepy and quickly went back in a slumber. Seales said he left and went out to the front of the street, and came back shortly after, and heard ‘Rasta Man’ shouting “No! No! No!”.
Frantically, he ran into the house, only to see the lad stabbing away at the dread-locked man.
A young girl recounted that when she heard the news and rushed inside the house, all she saw was blood spilling. But by then, the aggressor had fled. Another man related that the killer had fired a chop on the back of his head before going in on ‘Rasta Man’.
Reports are that the deceased hails from Bartica, lived for some time in Leopold Street, before being brought to Queen Street by Nichola. Since moving to the neighbourhood, he has been accommodated at a friend whose name is Iransy.
Iransy recalled that around 16:30 hrs, he was sitting at the corner of Holmes Street when he noticed residents of the neighborhood running in the direction of his home, but he hadn’t the slightest idea a murder had taken place. But on drawing closer, neighbours told him they thought it was he who had been killed.
“That is when I know that Rasta Man get kill in my house,” he said, breaking down in tears. He recalled that moments earlier he had brought in Ital fried rice and bread and insisted that Rasta man eat something. “The last thing de man eat was the bread, and the next thing I know is dat he dead.”
Meanwhile, neighbours recalled that on Friday, the accused had started behaving strangely – drinking water from the drain along the roadside and rubbing feces on his body. These acts were followed up with the strange killing of the cat on the roof yesterday afternoon, and less than an hour later, a man was brutally murdered.
Meanwhile, residents were high in commendation for Rasta Man whom they described as an easy going and good natured man.
Ironically, he died the day after his birthday anniversary, having turned 49 on Friday.
Meanwhile, police have taken the suspect, whose name was given as Christopher, into custody.
By Shirley Thomas

 

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