A father and his son, known “trouble makers”, are now in Police custody after they reportedly stabbed to death 23-year-old labourer Brayon Dewakar, called “black boy,” of Lot 128 Mon Repos South, ECD in the wee hours of Sunday morning.
Dewakar was reportedly with his friends at a Bar-B-Que and lime activity a short distance from his home when the businessman and his son, who was armed with a knife, approached them. It is unclear what transpired, but according to his cousin, Dewakar began to run away when he was ambushed by the due, who dealt him one stab to his right side chest. Guyana Times was told that, bleeding from the wound, Dewakar jumped a fence
Brayon Dewakar
and fell into a yard as the two suspects escaped from the scene. He was rushed to the Georgetown Public Hospital (GPHC), where he was pronounced dead on arrival.
The senior suspect, known as “Turkey,” reportedly went to the Beterverwagting Police Station on the East Coast of Demerara (ECD) and filed a report claiming that he was robbed and beaten by the now dead man. He received a medical form and was sent to the GPHC to await treatment for “no visible injuries” when he was arrested. And acting on information received, his son was nabbed by Police ranks in a toilet at his house.
A cousin of the deceased who was at the scene of the altercation told Guyana Times that one of the suspects was heard earlier in the night saying, “I gotta kill somebody at this BBQ here tonight”.
This cousin further informed that the duo are regularly in trouble, and had only last week attacked another man, part of whose face they injured.
Recounting what he knew of the fatal stabbing of his cousin, he said, “I saw my cousin running to the back of these people that had the BBQ yard, then I saw them man this running behind he. By time that I see ‘black boy’ trying to jump the fence to come over in them people this yard, but then catch he before he could jump, and (they) stab he. So by time he reach over the fence, he was already bleeding bad; and he drop down in the mud here”.
Sharu Dewakar, the mother of the dead man, rushed to the scene, only to find her
Deorani Dyal
son panting for breath on the ground.
The distraught woman relayed to this newspaper that she began screaming when she saw the condition that her son was in, and she begged him to talk to her. She said her son attempted to speak, but she couldn’t understand what he was saying, since was already dying.
“I was sleeping when my sister call for me and tell me to get up and go see what happened to my son. When I go there, I see he lay down in a yard; so I lift him and me she, ‘Blacky, talk to mommy nah! Talk to mommy nah!’ but he go, ‘Uuhh uhhh,’ that was all,” the woman cried.
She revealed that, with assistance, she and another took Dewakar out of the yard and rushed him to the hospital, where she later found out that he had succumbed.
“At the hospital, them nah tell me that my son died; they said that he okay, but I found out and I start to holler,” the grief stricken mother stated.
Dewaker leaves to mourn his parents, two young sisters, and other relatives and friends.
The knife used in the crime is said to have been recovered by Police in a nearby trench close to the scene. The two men remain in custody as investigations continue.
Dewaker’s murder is the third to have been committed in the past three days. On Saturday, 24-year old Edward Bevaney of Lot 115 Ogle Street, Triumph, ECD was stabbed to death by an acquaintance during an altercation at Republic Drive, Beterverwagting, East Coast Demerara (ECD).
The suspect reportedly stabbed him once to his left eye and twice to his chest with an ice-pick. During the altercation, the suspect was also chopped to his left arm and stabbed one to the left side of his chest.
On Friday last, 20-year-old Deorani Dyal was stabbed to death by her reputed husband in her Lot 123 Hope Low Land, ECD home reportedly in front of her minor
Edward Bevaney
son. The suspect, Doonauth Ramlall, later consumed poison and died while receiving treatment at the GPHC.
The young woman was found slumped with several stab wounds to her face and chest. She was rushed to the hospital, where she was pronounced dead on arrival. (Kizzy Coleman)
