A 24-year-old Triumph, East Coast Demerara (ECD) man was fatally stabbed on Saturday morning in neighbouring Beterverwagting during what was described as a heated argument between two men, known to each other, over a bicycle.

Dead is Edward Beveney, of Ogle Street, Triumph, while the suspect has been identified as 35-year-old Rawle Munrio of Ann’s Grove, further up the East Coast.
The incident reportedly occurred about 08:00hrs near a shop on Republic Drive, Beterverwagting, when a confrontation developed into a full-blown fight after Munrio, who is now hospitalised and under police guard, went to the shop with a bicycle to make a purchase.

He had apparently left the bicycle outside the shop, and when he finished running his errand and went to retrieve it, he was told that the deceased had taken it.
Reports are that the two men had worked in the interior as miners together, and had an old beef. And apparently, Beveney wasn’t about to let it go, as even though he had just gone to the shop, he was armed with a cutlass and a knife.

According to reports, he drew first blood when he fired a chop at Munrio.
The latter, though wounded on the left hand with which he deflected the blow, retaliated by pulling an ice pick which was concealed on his person and dealt Beveney several stabs about the body.

According to eyewitnesses, the now mortally wounded Beveney jumped into a nearby trench and had to be pulled out when the police arrived on the scene. The murder weapon, this being the ice pick, was reportedly recovered from the crime scene and handed over to the police.
Meanwhile, over at Beveney’s house, his aunt, Debbie, told the Guyana Chronicle that she learnt of the incident around 08:00hrs when she received a telephone call telling her about it.

She said she’s not sure what really transpired, but on arriving on the scene and seeing her nephew stagger and fall, she quickly got a vehicle and took him to the hospital, but he was already dead.

“While on the way to the hospital,” she said, “I felt Edward going. And then I realised he had died in my arms, even though he was not bleeding. He had a wound on the left side abdomen, and a cut over the eye.”

The woman related that Beveney had only returned home last Christmas from the hinterland where he worked. And though he was not known to be a troublemaker, she readily admitted that he had a temper.

Other than that, he was a very nice person, and very helpful around the house where he lived with his extended family.
He was unmarried, she said, and had no children.