Berbice man dies after being set on fire with stove

A 27-year-old man has succumbed to injuries he received weeks after he was pelted with a lit kerosene stove.
Dead is Sheldon Simon of Lot 126 Number Two Village, East Canje, Berbice.
He was reportedly burnt on November 6 and died on Saturday, December 4.
His mother is calling for justice, saying he is her third son to have been murdered.
According to his mother, Nandranie Sookra, she saw her son on fire, but did not recognise him even after he plunged into a trench.

She told Guyana Times that the incident occurred after her sleeping son was roused by a commotion in the yard and got up; as he stepped outside the door, a lit stove was thrown on him.
Sookra said she saw someone covered in fire running out of the yard and plunging into a trench, but at the time she did not know it was her own son until she was told that persons wanted to assist him, but the perpetrator was standing in the area.
She said she picked up her phone and acted as if she was calling the Police and shortly after, the car light of a vehicle was seen coming down the street.
“And then they run away and is so them boys pick him up, and carry him to his sister,” Sookra said.

Simon was subsequently taken to the New Amsterdam Hospital and later transferred to the burns unit of the Georgetown Public Hospital, where he remained until his demise.
Sookra said she was told that her son had contracted pneumonia.
“I go the next morning and I see him blowing short like he panting for breath, so I called the doctor and asked him what is going on and he said it is the pneumonia and he got cold around his lungs. Then they tell me that they have to transfer him upstairs to the ICU [Intensive Care Unit].”
Sookra said her son and the suspect had an ongoing feud. She showed this publication a document that indicated that Simon was attending a clinic. The document said he was being treated for multiple stab wounds.
The 52-year-old Sookra said he earlier received nine stab wounds from the suspect.
Meanwhile, Police were able to arrest the suspect and on November 10, Romario Rohit, 26, a bulk crane operator, appeared before Magistrate Renita Singh charged with attempted murder.
He was not required to plead to the indictable charge and was granted bail in the sum of $180,000. The matter was adjourned to today.
Sookra said that three of her six children have been murdered.
“I want justice for my children. Is three of me children dead and I want justice, I ain’t get justice for none. One dead in the pirate attack in Suriname, one juke up and dead in Georgetown, and this other one get bun up and dead. I want justice right now. I don’t want money, that can’t bring back my children. I want justice,” the woman told this publication.
In May 2018, pirates attacked four fishing vessels in Surinamese waters and 20 fishermen went missing. Sookra’s 19-year-old son, Ralph Anthony Coachman, was one of them.
On August 1, 2012, her 20-year-old son, plantain chip vendor Jermaine Simon was fatally stabbed while walking along America Street in the capital city. (G4)