Love triangle ends in fatal stabbing

A 24-year-old pork-knocker is now dead after reportedly being stabbed to his chest by another man while in his camp at Jaw Bone Backdam in the North West District (NWD) of Region One (Barima-Waini) on Monday.
Dead is Kwasi Mitchell of Hyde Park, Timehri, East Bank Demerara (EBD), and Police have confirmed that the stabbing incident stemmed from a misunderstanding over a teenage girl.
According to reports, the suspect and Mitchell had reportedly shared an intimate relationship with a 16-year-old female of Baramita, NWD.
On Monday, at about 00:30h, the suspect and the teen had a misunderstanding, after which she left the suspect’s camp and went to Mitchell’s camp to sleep.
In her statement to the Police, the teen said that at about 02:00h, while sleeping at Mitchell’s camp in his hammock, she felt an impact on her head. She opened her eyes and looked up, and saw the suspect armed with a sharp object in his hand, which he allegedly used to stab Michelle in his left side chest and right hand.
She said Mitchell frantically jumped out of the hammock and ran away from his camp, before he collapsed on Jaw Bone Landing. Public-spirited persons who saw the man collapse assisted him to the Baramita Health Centre, NWD, where he was pronounced dead on arrival. The body was later escorted to the Port Kaituma Mortuary to await a PME.
Meanwhile, the suspect was nabbed and assaulted by members of the public at the scene of the stabbing, before being handed over to the Police. He has since confessed to the murder, the Police have said. Investigations are ongoing.