Two men are now dead and a woman critical following an incident at Caracas, situated on the outskirts of New Amsterdam, Region Six (East Berbice-Corentyne).
Dead are Shawn LeFleur and 52-year-old Leon Fordyce, both of Angoy’s Avenue. Injured in 44-year-old Angelisha Newyear.
Dead: Shawn LeFleur
Residents said the incident may have its origin in issues surrounding a triangular love affair.
According to the police, at about 22:30h on Sunday, Lafleur was in the company of Neon De Jonge, known only as ‘Thunder’ or ‘Bristol’ and were allegedly engaged in an argument with Angelisha Newyear about threats made to the woman’s 26-year-old son Gregory De Jonge.
The police said the argument escalated and Newyear was stabbed to the abdomen and Leon Fordyce reportedly received a blow to the head, he was pronounced dead on arrival at the New Amsterdam Hospital.
Shawn LaFleur was also stabbed, he was escorted to the New Amsterdam Hospital and admitted.
However, he succumbed to his injuries on Monday while being transported to the Georgetown Public Hospital.
Newyear was admitted to the New Amsterdam Public Hospital. Gregory De Jonge, was arrested and is assisting with the investigations.
Meanwhile villagers told this publication following the injuries Fordyce received, a mob pounced on LaFleur and left him on the street bleeding. He was removed from the street by the police hours later.
One villager said that he closed his business place at midnight and went to bed but shortly after he heard a lady screaming for help and when he got out of bed he found Newyear at his gate. He said the woman was bleeding and begged him to open up his gate for her.
He identified the woman as Newyear called in the community ‘Angie’.
“She say [called him by name] please open because people would kill me. So I opened and she came in. The attacker start to break the gate. We calling the police for one hour before they come. We call all to Georgetown and no police response; over one hour. After the police come they take her to the hospital.”
The villager said the attacker had been trying to get the woman by attempting to break his gate.
“I try begging him to stop… but after I out my light, he move off,” the villager related.
He identified the attacker as Shawn Lafleur, who was also killed. His mother, 50-year-old Nicole LaFleur said early Monday morning someone informed her that Shawn, the second of her seven children, met his demise.
“Ah hear somebody call me but I don’t know is who, they call me and tell me that my son dead. So when I come out and I go by the same spot down there I meet my son lie down and I go to him and asked him what happened to him. I took off my jacked and I wrap his head and I didn’t know he had a wound on his throat too. When I turn his neck I see the big thing and my cousin she take off her top too and wrap his neck with it,” the woman said.
The pointed out that her son’s death could be related to an affair he had with a woman who has a two-month-old baby.
“The girl get a child and he [Shawn] is claiming that the child in not his own. Anyhow he went and register the child…she say that the child is my son child and not ‘Buck Man’ but my son say it is not his child because the child don’t resemble the two children that he has,” the mother revealed.
However, some villager told this newspaper it was a mob that injured LaFluer, which contradicts the version the police reported after speaking with the suspect. An investigation has been launched.
