A stabbing incident at Imbaimadai Landing, Region Seven (Cuyuni-Mazaruni) has left one man dead and another battling for his life.
Dead is 37-year-old Stenson Roland, a gold miner from the nearby village of Phillipi, while the injured man is identified as “Chiney”, from Imbaimadai.
Based on preliminary investigations, the incident occurred at about 23:30h at Pompey’s shop at Imbaimadai Landing.
Police stated that Roland was imbibing with a group of people when the suspect, also referred to as “Rohaman”, walked up to him, whipped out a knife, and dealt him one blow to his upper left side chest after which he fled the scene.
Roland subsequently collapsed, with blood oozing from his chest area. The injured man was pronounced dead at the scene by the Community Health Worker.
However, an eyewitness account related that the suspect, Rohaman Kenneth, also known as “Madman”, entered the shop and first attacked Johnny, who was imbibing at the drinking spot. Johnny was reportedly stabbed once in his abdomen.
As the suspect was reportedly leaving the shop, he ran into Roland and also dealt him one blow to his chest. The suspect then made good his escape by running into the nearby bushes.
Meanwhile, Ermella Roland, a sister of the dead man, during a telephone interview, told Guyana Times that her brother recently travelled to Imbaimadai to work in order to raise money to complete his house which is under construction.
She related that on the night in question, she was at home when they received a telephone call about a disturbance at the shop where one of her cousins works but did not pay too much attention since it is normal.
The aggrieved sister jumped out of her bed when someone turned up at their house with the news that her brother had been stabbed to death.
“I ran to the shop only to see my brother lying on the ground in a pool of blood… soon after the Police arrived at the scene and removed us from the crime scene… I saw one stab wound to his left side chest and the other guy had one stab to his abdomen next to his navel… but my brother was already dead,” the sister related.
While information remains sketchy about what really took place, the sister explained that from the information received, the suspect just walked up to her brother and stabbed him. “My brother, they say wasn’t drunk and there was no fight that would lead to any altercation… this man just walked up to him and killed him…” At the time of the incident, the now dead man was in the company of his reputed wife and several others.
The sister, however, related that the injured man, “Chiney” was transferred to the Kamarang District Hospital where he is being treated. She further noted that her dead brother was the third of nine children for parents, who was always well-mannered and stayed out of trouble.
He did not have any children.
