Police are investigating the circumstances surrounding the death of a 40-year-old fisherman, whose body was found on the parapet at Crabwood Creek, Corentyne, Berbice.
Dead: 40-year-old Umar Jumai
The body of a man was on Monday morning discovered at First Street, Grant 1806, Crabwood Creek, Corentyne, Region Six (East Berbice-Corentyne).
Dead is 40-year-old Umar Jumai, of the same community.
The discovery was made by a passerby sometime around 07:00h on Monday.
Jamai lived alone. His sister, Nariman Jumai, said a friend showed her a photo of her brother’s lifeless body lying on the parapet, two streets away from where he lives.
The woman said before she left home to head to the scene, police arrived at her house and took her to the location to identify the man. According to her she observed her brother in a crouched position.
“I wait till they finish everything and bring he and put he on the road… If you see the blood spraying out of him,” the sister related.
A wound was observed to the man’s abdomen. His sister said it appeared to be a stab wound.
The woman is calling for justice for the death of her brother noting that although he lived alone, he seldom cooked and would often go by her for meals.
Detectives at the crime scene
“He would come at me for food or go to people in the village and they would give him lil food, so he used to live,” the sister said about her younger brother.
“When he come by me, he would spend a two-days and gone back again.”
According to the sister, the last time she saw her brother was last week after he changed his government cash grant cheque.
She said most of the money he shared with friends.
Jamai had returned from sea last week and was scheduled to go back on Sunday.
“I get some wuk going on by my house so I tell him to stay and he would wuk with me for a couple days because is the foundation for the building we got to do. He say that he got to go to sea and when he come back he gone wuk with me. I understand that he went yesterday [Sunday] on the boat but I don’t know what transpired pon the boat.”
Meanwhile, at about 15:00h on Monday, one of the two suspects that were held for questioning confessed to stabbing the fisherman once in the abdomen.
According to police, a video-recorded interview and a caution statement were obtained from the suspect. Additionally, a video walkthrough was conducted with him at the crime scene.
