Fifty-seven-year-old Romesh Peters, a fisherman of Letter Kenny Village, Corentyne, Berbice, was on Monday evening found dead moments after he was engaged in a heated argument with his son.
Police stated that the now dead man and his 29-year-old son were involved in a heated argument in front of their home. However, he walked away, leaving his son on the street.
Soon after, neighbours reportedly heard a commotion and upon checking, they saw the now dead man lying on his back with injuries to the left side of his head. A piece of wood was seen close to him.
The injured man was picked up in an unconscious state and taken to the Port Mourant Hospital, where he was pronounced dead.
When Guyana Times visited the man’s house on Tuesday, his daughter, Pamella Peters, said the argument between her brother and father stemmed from an allegation made by another relative.
The shed that collapsed
Peters explained that her father had taken the side of his daughter-in-law, which angered her brother. The father, in retaliation, asked his son to leave the premises and he would ensure that his wife followed suit.
The daughter further explained that her father, who was worked up, continued to plead with his son to leave the premises while she asked him not to take on her brother.
“When my father come in, his daughter-in-law was right here. He go and hold on to the post underneath the shed and all of a sudden the post loose off and my father fall down on the ground and he call me for a cup of water. It is all because my small brother was arguing with his wife and she come and give my father a complaint and he accept the complaint because he say if he daughter-in-law came and give him a complaint he has to take [her side]…”
Peters added that at the time, her brother was on the street calling for his wife to join him.
On this note, the woman held out that there was no physical contact between her father and brother.
“My brother did not lash my father. They did not touch each other, only argue on the street. My brother did not come in the yard. He stay outside arguing that he want his wife. Because of the argument, my father say that he could do his wife anything so he keep his daughter-in-law in the yard and he tell him ‘Boy don’t come inside the yard’. By he fret and fret, I don’t know if his heart give up,” she said.
Police had arrested the 26-year-old son as the investigations continue.
