TWENTY-FIVE-YEAR-OLD father one Darnell Pompey on Christmas night lost his battle to a stab wound to the neck after nine days of being a patient at the Georgetown Public Hospital.

The Lot 76 Prince William Street, Plaisance, East Coast Demerara resident was stabbed to his neck with a knife by a young man whom he reportedly had a running feud. The incident according to relatives, took place on the railway embankment at Plaisance on December 16th 2017.

Speaking with the Guyana Chronicle Wednesday afternoon Marcelle Adams, the mother of the dead young man related that she was at work in the United States when she received a phone call from a relative who indicated that Pompey was stabbed and was at the hospital in a serious condition. She subsequently flew home to Guyana. Upon her arrival, she went straight to the Georgetown Public Hospital to see her son battling for his life.
Mrs. Adams explained to the Guyana Chronicle that it was her view that her son would have recovered, but that was not to be. “He passed on Christmas Night at 9pm and that hurts. They took away my baby, his daughter and family; we are hurting, we got a big Christmas present that we have not opened until now and we will never open it,” Marcelle Adams told this newspaper.

During the interview the shaken woman related that her family is being laughed at by the relatives of the suspect. According to the dead man’s mother, she is pleading with the suspect to turn himself over to the police so that she and her family can have closure. She added that the brother of the suspect gave her his word that he will be turning his brother over to the police. That however is not sitting well with Mrs. Adams as she contends that the suspect is part of a gang and those members have been updating the young man who is in hiding, about the presence of the police in the area and that in essence provides him the opportunity to continue to evade the lawmen.

“The cops are doing their job, you should turn yourself in because I will not stop until you do. I need closure, I watched my son lying there for eight days fighting for his life and I need you to turn yourself in, you took my baby away from me  and you rip my heart apart, I could never stop crying and I will never stop crying so turn yourself in,” Adams pleaded with the suspect.

Also speaking with the Guyana Chronicle was Sherman Adams an older cousin of Pompey who was with him on the morning that altercation took place. In his account of what transpired on the day in question, he said that his cousin was approaching him when the suspect who spotted him also advanced towards him (the deceased). Sherman Adams said that he observed the suspect approaching his cousin with a knife and his cousin took evasive measures and armed himself with a piece of wood following which the assailant picked up a bottle, broke it and continued to advance towards Pompey.

As the two men met, the suspect attempted to stab Pompey with the bottle and when Pompey tried to retaliate, he was stabbed with the knife by the very suspect who then fled the scene and has not been seen since. Sherman spoke about how his cousin was constantly targeted by the suspect and his friend, who at one point last year chopped him about the body, barred him from fishing in the community trench; stoned the family’s house and even threatened to kill him on several occasions.

Living in fear Darnell Pompey was regarded by his family as someone who was subjected to bullying by a combination of gangs in the community because he refused to join any of them or to associate with any of them. “They claimed that the dislike for their relative by the gangs had to do with his forward thinking personality and the manner in which he carried himself.” Relatives said jealousy seems to be what drove the wedge between the gangs and Darnell Pompey.

“They wanted to know why he never wanted to hang with them and that was the issue, they drove fear in him and he has been living in fear in this village from the people up the street in this community, he was even forced to be sleeping with his two Pit-bull dogs by his bedside” one relative related. The police investigations into the death continue even as a post-mortem found that Darnell Pompey died as a result of a cut to his main artery and haemorrhage. While the suspect remains at large, the family is praying for justice.