Rose Hall vendor allegedly beaten to death at night club

The body of a Rose Hall Town, Corentyne man was picked up on the road shoulder at Portuguese Quarters shortly before midnight on Sunday.
Dead is 34-year-old Kaioum Baksh of Market Street Rose Hall Town. Reports are that the vendor was beaten at a nightclub before collapsing on the road outside. According to Police, the man’s body was picked up from outside of a nightclub at about 22:30h on Sunday. It is alleged that he was beaten by a security guard employed at a nightclub. Reports are that the club attracts women from a neighbouring country and Baksh has reportedly had physical and verbal encounters with some of them.

On Sunday night, he was reportedly refused entry into the club and according to some patrons this angered him and he became violent and was verbally abusive.
His father Navindra Manick told this publication that he was asleep when a neighbour went to his home and informed him that his son was beaten at the nightclub.

Manick said he did not go because it was very late in the night.
“So I gone back and lie down and then next friend called me and told me to come out and see because something wrong with my son. He lying down and not moving. Then I decided that it not looking too good and I decided to get up and go out. When I go out he was lying down and the police was there and nobody saying anything to me. So I asked the police what going on and the police say they are waiting to carry him to the hospital for confirmation,” the man’s father said.
Baksh’s lifeless body was taken to the Port Mourant Hospital where he was pronounced dead.
According to Elitzel Grant he was outside of the club at the time of the incident but “nobody come out and try to assist the man.”
He said he took some water and threw it into Baksh’s face but got no response and kicked foot to see if he would move but he did not.
Police have since arrested a 45-year-old security guard of Mibicuri South, Black Bush Polder, who works at the nightclub.
“I don’t really know the man but I would see him at Shaveh. He would be patting down people as they go in checking for knife of anything…” one visitor to the club told this publication.
Baksh made a living as a roving vendor. His mother, Devika Manick said it was difficult to accept that her son had passed away.
“The only bad habit that he get is that he does drink. I does always row with him about the drinking. Yesterday [Sunday] morning he went and sell and when he come back like he went and take a few drinks.”
The grieving woman said the family is seeking justice and are counting on the police to ensure that it is served.
Police have launched an investigation. (G4)