Several arrested for fatal chopping of DJ – Crime Chief
Dead: Brian Pitam, also known as DJ Viper
As investigations intensify into the chopping death of 18-year-old Brian Pitam, also known as “DJ Viper”, Crime Chief Wendell Blanhum on Tuesday confirmed that several persons have been taken into custody. Among those persons, he noted, is one suspect who had been arrested on Sunday evening after the incident.
Blanhum has noted that, up to Tuesday evening, there has been no confession. However, he said, once the file is completed, it would be sent for legal advice.
Pitam, a disc jockey (DJ) of Good Hope, East Coast Demerara, was on Sunday evening chopped to death while trying to protect his father-in-law from three men who were attacking him at Laluni on the Linden-Soesdyke Highway. It has been reported that the late Pitam’s father-in-law, Kumar Bacchus, was imbibing at a shop when three men confronted him and dealt him a lash to his face. Pitam intervened, and was dealt several chops about his body before the trio rode off on their motorcycles.
Public-spirited citizens rushed Pitam to the Georgetown Public Hospital, where he was pronounced dead on arrival. The Police have said that Pitam’s left thumb, index and middle fingers were severed, while the left wrist was partially severed, and he also sustained a deep chop wound to the back of the neck.
