Corentyne poultry farmer dies days after attack by neighbour

– suspect said to have threatened other neighbours who arrived to stop the attack

A Corentyne poultry farmer is now dead, five days after being attacked with a brick, and his head slammed into a concrete wall, by his neighbour.
Dead is Enque Hintzen 24, a poultry farmer of Number 51 Village, Corentyne, Region Six (East Berbice-Corentyne).
The incident occurred on Monday, and Hintzen passed away Saturday morning at the Georgetown Public Hospital (GPHC).

Hintzen’s reputed wife, who is nine months pregnant, Aaliyah Ward explained that her husband and the alleged attacker were not on speaking terms.
She said at about 8:00 h on Monday, their 25-year-old neighbour, Kelly France, came into their yard to get his pre-paid electricity meter charged.
“He and Enque don’t take. So, Enque told him to come out of the yard… Enque end up pushing him out of the yard, and then he come back inside and start to hit him with a stick and pelt him with a brick in his head – the brick still by the gate.”
The woman said the intruder continued to assault her husband by kicking him.
“Then he take his head and slam it against the concrete wall,” she added while explaining that as her husband collapsed, the neighbour left the yard.
“Enque get up and walk out the yard and he fall down by the road.”
Ward said neighbours had gathered during the first encounter between the two men.
“Plenty neighbours come and they try and part them, and when Kelly going away, he tell them, ‘Ah gon kill all you all in this village’, but we didn’t know he gon come back in the yard,” the grieving woman said.
Hintzen was rushed to Skeldon Public Hospital and later transferred to New Amsterdam Public Hospital before being sent to the Georgetown Public Hospital where he remained in the Intensive Care Unit (ICU) until his passing.
Police arrested the suspect hours after the incident at his home and released him on station bail on Thursday after 72 hours.
According to Ward, on Friday the suspect and all of his family members left home and have not returned.
Police are said to be on a hunt for the suspect.