SIX years after her murder, relatives of 31-year-old Stabroek Market vendor, Latisha ‘Samantha’ Rodrigues are still convinced that her killer can be caught.
Rodrigues, of Breda Street, Georgetown, was reportedly stabbed once in the chest on the

night of September 26, 2010.

It is alleged that on the night of the incident, a female, who is a suspect in the matter, sent a male friend to distract Rodrigues by starting an argument with her.
It was while Rodrigues’ attention was focused on the argument with the man that the woman allegedly launched her attack, stabbing her once in the chest.

Two years after the incident, the police issued a wanted bulletin for Lexie Abiola Abigail Richardson, saying that the then 26-year-old, whose last known address was 64 Cross Street, Werk-en-Rust, Georgetown was wanted for questioning in relation to the September 26, 2010 murder of ‘Samantha’ Rodrigues.
In a recent interview with the Guyana Chronicle, Rodrigues’ sister, Anastacia, said their family is still depending on the police to apprehend the suspect who allegedly killed her sister.

“I’m losing fate in the police investigations, because my brother was also recently killed and there is a possibility that we may not get justice with his death also,” she said.
On January 20, 2017, her brother, Rawle Rodrigues, 40, a mason and carpenter of Leopold Street, Werk-en-Rust, Georgetown was stabbed with a knife in the region of the heart and was pronounced dead on arrival at the Georgetown Public Hospital.
Police have since apprehended a 28-year-old suspect in connection with the stabbing, but he was later released pending investigation.

Inquiries disclosed that Rawle Rodrigues and two males had an altercation, when he was allegedly stabbed once to his chest by one of the men with an object on Croal Street, in the vicinity of Demico House.
Anastacia said that her brother was not a trouble maker, and there was no reason for anyone to stab him after robbing him of his cell-phone.
The Major Crimes Unit of the Guyana Police Force has reopened and solved several cold murder cases last year.

Some of the notable “cold” cases police have solved are: The murder of Babita Sarjou, whose body was found buried in her estranged husband’s backyard six years after she went missing; Professor Perry Mars, a remigrant who was found murdered in his house; the Black Bush Polder triple-murder; and the murder of a visiting British teen in addition to the murder of David Ramcharran, a little over 17 years ago at Seven Miles, Mahdia.
Thirty-eight-year-old Philbert Edwards, a miner, confessed to murdering Ramcharran on May 03, 1999 reportedly over cigarettes.

Anyone with information on the whereabouts of wanted murder suspect Lexie Abiola Abigail Richardson is asked to contact the police on telephone numbers: 226-1326, 225-2227, 225-8196, 226-7065, 225-6411, 911 or the nearest police station.