Corentyne labourer stabbed to death during row over cellphone
A Corentyne labourer was on Tuesday evening stabbed to death during a row over a cellphone.
The incident occurred at Number 53 Village, Corentyne and resulted in the death of 31-year-old Colane Toney, a labourer.
Toney was stabbed several times including once to the chest at about 23:30h.
Reports are that the suspect is a 24-year-old taxi driver of Number 51 Village who is known as ‘Suga’.
Dead: 31-year-old Colane Toney
Toney’s mother, Clair Hope explained that the two men got involved in an argument over a cellphone earlier in the night.
According to Hope, her son would have sold the taxi driver a phone for $20,000 but was not paid immediately.
On Tuesday, Toney demanded payment.
“He ask the boy for his money, the cellphone was $20,000 and the boy just give him $5000 and he tell the boy that he could keep the phone and keep the money because he don’t want that. Like they got into an argument and he left and go home,” the mother explained.
Shortly afterwards Toney went to bar and where the argument escalated and he was attacked with a knife.
Grieving mother, Clair Hope
“Probably like he get cut on his hand when he go to bar. He get three stabs on his hand and one in his chest,” the grieving mother explained.
According to the woman, when she arrived on the scene, her son begged her to take him to the hospital.
“He tell me ‘Take me to the hospital. I love you my mother and I want you to look at my children and tell me brother that I love him and he must watch my children. After he stab him the boy words were ‘Ah gon tek you and make sacrifice’. People gathered and his words to them were, ‘Who next, who want to come to get sacrificed and nobody didn’t go to his rescue until the boy left and then people run to his rescue,” the mother said.
The injured man was rushed to the Skeldon Hospital and arrived there in a critical state. According to his mother arrangements were being made to have Tony transferred to the New Amsterdam Hospital but died before leaving for that hospital.
The woman is calling for justice, adding that her son has a wife and three children, ages three, five and seven.
Toney worked as a labourer on a farm owned by a former Guyana Elections Commission, Chief Elections Officer.
Police are on the hunt for the suspect as investigation continues. (G4)
