TWO fish vendors faced a joint charge for the capital offence of murder when they appeared before acting Chief Magistrate Faith Mc Gusty at the Georgetown Magistrates’ Courts on Tuesday.

Charged are 28-year-old Keyron Lewis c/d “Donkey” and Joshua Persaud, 23.

It is alleged that between November 22 and 26, 2024, at Georgetown, they murdered Devon Williams, a 28-year-old labourer of Lot 806 ‘C’ Field Sophia, Greater Georgetown.

Police said that Williams died on November 26, 2024 at his residence.
During Tuesday’s court hearing, Lewis was represented by an attorney while his co-accused had no legal representation. In the end, they were remanded to prison until January 8, 2025.

Enquiries disclosed that Williams was living at the above address with his 52-year-old mother. According to the mother, prior to her son’s death, she was at home when she received information that her son was lying under the Special Constabulary Outpost steps at Stabroek Market with wounds about his body.

As a result, she left home and went to Stabroek Market where she saw her son lying under the Constabulary stairs, with an injury to the back of his head. The woman said she questioned her son as to how he received his injury and he told her that someone by the named ‘Stitchie’ chopped him because he stole from him.

The Emergency Medical Technicians (EMT) were summoned to the scene and Williams was taken to the Georgetown Public Hospital Corporation (GPHC) where he was treated and discharged.

At about 07:00hrs on November 26, 2024, the mother told the police that she was at home when she checked on her son and discovered him lying motionless on his bed. The EMT was summoned to the scene and the victim was pronounced dead at the GPHC.
A post-mortem examination revealed that the deceased succumbed to hemorrhagic shock caused by multiple incised wounds and blunt trauma to the head and chest.

Reports indicate that Williams was stabbed with a knife and chopped with a cutlass. Allegedly, the two defendants accused him of stealing a $90,000 phone.