A 25-year-old man was fatally stabbed on Sunday night after he tried to defend a relative, reports say. Dead is Patrick Wilson called “Boy” of Lot 5, Limlair, East Berbice, Corentyne.

Eyewitnesses, speaking with the Guyana Chronicle, related that a relative of Wilson had an issue with the suspect who intended to stab the relative but Wilson, in an attempt to defend him, stepped in.

This enraged the suspect who then turned his attention to Wilson. “He cousin and Sammy (suspect)  had some old story and them pick it up, so Patrick step in and say’man you can’t do dah’ and them two start fuh argue and he pull out a knife and then Patrick run away with he behind and catch up and stab he.”

According to reports, the victim was stabbed once in the chest in the region of his heart and he fell on a heap of sand by the roadside. The suspect was apprehended by public-spirited citizens and handed over to the police who arrived shortly.

Meanwhile, the mother of the young man, Camela Surojmohan 53, related that she received a call at around 23:00hrs Sunday from one of her sons informing her that “Patrick’ was stabbed. She said she initially refused to believe, but everything was confirmed when she visited the scene and saw her son clinging to life.

He eventually took his last breath and was finally removed from the scene around 04:00hrs on Monday. The suspect has been identified only as ‘Sammy’, a former bus conductor of Salton village, also on the Corentyne. Investigations are ongoing.