THE live-in partner of murdered Jamal Harris, Tandika Hinckson denied, yesterday, that he was a thief, as claimed by the police after his brutal killing at Kitty Seawall in Georgetown early Monday morning.

The 22-year-old woman insisted that the dead 19-year-old was wrongly painted by the police in sections of both the print and electronic media.
She said Harris was called to the Kitty Seawall and it was then a drug addict who works for a Brazilian selling hot dogs there held onto him and the vendor subdued him by placing one of his hands behind his back and the junkie stabbed her lover.
Hinckson said when Harris arrived at the seawall, the robbery had already taken place but he was fingered by the drug addict.
She said eyewitnesses, later, related to the family what had transpired that led to the demise of Harris.
Harris suffered several stabs and was left lying on the ground but was placed in a vehicle and transported, by a young man who fled after putting him off at the Georgetown Public Hospital (GPH) and he succumbed while receiving medical attention.

Terribly upset
Hinckson, lamenting, said,“We are terribly upset by the erroneous report in the media, which is even on the Internet and his relatives overseas are equally upset and we would like to say, once again, that he was not a thief since he was gainfully employed as a maintenance assistant at the New Guyana Pharmaceutical Corporation (GPC) Inc.”
The woman added that Harris was a very determined person but never participated in any form of robbery and she wished that his murder is solved.
Up to press time, four persons were in police custody assisting with the investigations, following the death of Harris, who lived at Lot 82 Joseph Pollydore Street, Lodge, also in the city.
His mother, Yvonne Smith, told this newspaper that her son left home on Sunday to go to a creek with some friends and that was the last time she saw him alive.
One friend with whom he was in company said Harris dropped him and others off at their respective homes and they were unaware of his whereabouts after then.