Police have confirmed that 29-year-old Terrence Simon Adams has been arrested for the October 10, 2024 murder of Corentyne fisherman Michael Jackson.
According to the police, acting on information received, ranks proceeded to the residence of Terrence Simon Adams at Number 76 Housing Scheme in Corriverton, Berbice at around 14:00h on Wednesday, and when they contacted the fisherman, they informed him of the allegation made against him and arrested him in connection with the murder of his brother-in-law Michael Jackson.
Deceased: Michael Jackson
Adams has been taken to the Springlands Police Station, where he remains in custody pending further investigations.
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Michael Jackson is alleged to have been stabbed to death by his 27-year-old brother-in -law Terrence Simon Adams in October 2024. He succumbed to the injuries he sustained at the Skeldon Hospital a short while after the incident.
According to Jackson’s sister Selina Gobin, she was at the bridge of a wake house when her brother informed her that his brother-in-law had stabbed him. Her brother had then run into his mother’s house, and she had followed.
“He go in inside and raise up his shirt and show me his back where he get bore. When I check, I didn’t see nothing, and he say is at the side. When I check at the side, there was a bore, and he say that he feeling dizzy like he get inside bleeding,” Selena Gobin had told this publication last October.
“The street was full with people and there was loud music, so I didn’t hear nothing,” she had added.
Jackson’s mother Radica Rajkumar, who had not been at home at the time of the incident, had said that Adams and her son had had an ongoing feud that dated back to February 2024.
Explaining that her son-in-law lived with her but her son didn’t, she had detailed that the ongoing feud between Jackson and Adams had stemmed from an incident that had occurred in February 2024, when Jackson had been taking his niece and nephew out, and Adams, their father, who was coming home, had not been pleased with the clothes his children were wearing on the road.
Rajkumar explained that during the argument that ensued between the two men, Jackson had been abusive to her, and she had asked him to leave the home.
“A couple days ago, they had an argument and they had a fight. The fight start at Number 77 and they end up here. I try to part them. Terrence had a cutlass and ‘Junior’ [Jackson] had a wood. I take away the cutlass from Terrence and they cuss up one another; both of them cuss one another. ‘Junior’ left and he went home. Now he come to the wake house for two days, and I didn’t see he tell Terrence nothing, but what happen last night I don’t know,” this mother had recalled after the 2024 incident.
Rajkumar had also said that although she had not been on speaking terms with her son Michael Jackson, his death had not been taken lightly.
“I want justice. It is two of my children gone under that one family, and [I] want justice. If the brother-in-law has to go to jail, I am not concerned,” she had said.
