A STANLEYTOWN, New Amsterdam man was stabbed to death hours after he was embroiled in an argument with his brother-in-law.

Dead is Nkuma La Rose, also known as, “Tall boy” 33, of Number 54 Stanleytown, New Amsterdam. His body was discovered around 07:00hrs on Tuesday.

La Rose’s common-law wife, Asha Barclay, related, that her reputed husband and her brother Jermaine called ‘Jumbo’, began consuming alcohol just after 19:00hrs on Monday and it was during that period that an argument ensued. “La Rose don’t like the company Jermaine keeping with a girl because the police always coming to our house. Jermaine got annoyed and they had a heated quarrel. They scramble knife and cutlass. I told dem to stop. I threw out the bottle of rum before leaving the house to go to the police station to make a report. But as soon as I was on my way, the police patrol was passing and I called them. They stopped warned them and left. But as soon as the police left they started to argue again,” the woman related.

It was just after midnight that Barclay left her home for her grandmother’s residence at Lot 40 Mudflat, also in Stanleytown. Shortly before 05:00hrs La Rose, whom Barclay met four years ago, visited his grandmother-in-law’s house where he called for Asha but left after he was told she was sleeping.

Meanwhile, the grandmother, Silvia Mollyneaux told the Guyana Chronicle that she was in the kitchen when her grandson Jermain visited, demanding to see his sister Asha. “At the time, of his visit he had a long and a short knife in his hand. He say, Whey Asha. I will murder she.”

The elderly woman responded, “Not here! Not here!”, before continuing her domestic chores, as her grandson left the home. Moments later two females came calling saying “Tall boy get bore up”.

Mollyneaux recalled going to the scene where she saw La Rose lying with his face down in a drain. A closer check revealed a deep wound in the chest. La Rose was employed by as a security guard at Sentinel Security Company for over a year. The suspect remains at large up to press time.