A 40-year-old Mahaica, East Coast Demerara (ECD) resident was stabbed to death on Wednesday evening by two of his neighbours, whom have since been arrested.
Dead: Zahir Ali
Dead is Zahir Ali, a fisherman of Lot 78 Mosquito Hall, Unity, Mahaica. The incident reportedly occurred at approximately 19:20h.
Preliminary investigations by Police revealed that Ali and his neighbours were not on speaking terms and on the night in question, the two suspects stoned Ali’s house.
The fisherman confronted them on the road during which a heated argument ensued. The suspects then allegedly pulled the now dead man into their yard and shortly after, he was seen fleeing their premises drenched in blood.
Ali was rushed to the Mahaicony Cottage Hospital, where he was pronounced dead on arrival. He sustained stab wounds to his left chest and his abdomen.
Speaking with Guyana Times, the now dead man’s niece, Radika, related that her uncle’s neighbours were “troublesome” and drug addicts, who would usually disrupt the community by blasting music late in the nights.
In fact, she noted that last year they had stormed Ali’s yard and beat him up. He had to get stitches for those injuries. That matter had even reached the courts, but the parties then settled it.
Radika related that on Wednesday night, the two suspects began pelting Ali’s house and he went on to the road to confront them.
“He asked them they “want a problem?” and they say “yes, we want a problem” and they drag him in the yard, and beat him up and then they stabbed him,” she stated.
Radika, who lives about six houses away from her uncle, told this publication that she received a call that he had been stabbed and when she arrived at his house, he was lying on the ground in a pool of blood.
At the time, Radika said Ali was barely conscious.
“I was calling out to him, but froth was coming out his mouth and his eyes was rolling to the top… He wasn’t talking, he was just breathing slowly,” she related.
The man was eventually rushed to the hospital by relatives, but it was too late.
The fisherman leaves to mourn his wife and four children, along with other relatives and friends.
Following the incident on Wednesday night, the Police detained one of the suspects. The following day, Ali’s family got persons to look for the second suspect. He was found around 11:00h on Thursday hiding in some bushes at the Unity seawall, ECD.
Both men remain in custody as investigations continue.
