Elderly man chopped to death at Moruca, NWD

81-year-old Stanley Williams was on Wednesday chopped to death at Moruca, Region One (Barima-Waini), by a man who is said to be mentally ill.
According to a village councillor, at around 07:30h on Wednesday, January 4, he received a call from a female, who informed him that Williams had been attacked.
“They said Chavez chopped Uncle Stanley just before day-clean,” this councillor related.
He said Williams had lived with his partner in an isolated area within Cabora, and they did not have any close neighbours. They were caretakers of the property of another family. Cabora is one of several satellite villages of the more populated Santa Rosa village, which is within the Moruca sub-region.
Reports are that the victim’s body bore multiple chop wounds, including in the region of his abdomen.
A resident of the community noted that the assailant lives in another village, called Haimacabra, but would frequent the village of Cabora, since he is the nephew of Williams’s spouse.
It has also been reported that, several days ago, this suspect had allegedly stolen several items from the Information and Communications Technology (ICT) hub at Cabora. The matter was reported to the Police at Santa Rosa, and the items were recovered from another resident, who related that the suspect had sold them to him.
Guyana Times has further been informed that after the chopping incident, a report was made to ranks at the Acqueiro Police Station at about 09:10hrs on Wednesday, and Police had immediately been deployed to the area to investigate the incident.
Residents have noted that, of recent, there has been an increase in the number of mentally-ill persons within Moruca, and they have attributed this to the increasing use of drugs by mainly young men in the area.