More than a month after 18-year-old Noel Fraser was fatally stabbed on Leopold Street, Georgetown, while attempting to intervene in a fight, the suspect has been apprehended, charged, and subsequently remanded to prison.
Akeem Dazzel, a 25-year-old miner appeared before Chief Magistrate Sherdel Isaacs-Marcus at the Georgetown Magistrates’ Courts on Tuesday. He was not required to plead to the indictment when it was read to him.
Guyana Times understands that the suspect was arrested in Sophia, Greater Georgetown, on Friday last along with several others in connection with a $6 million robbery in July on Diamond Public Road, East Bank Demerara (EBD).
During this incident, masked gunmen forcibly entered the home of a 32-year-old Chinese businessman, Wange Wi. They confronted Wi and his wife at about 2:00h, tied them up, ransacked the room, and absconded with a black haversack containing the aforementioned sum.
Charged: Akeem Dazzel
Wi had counted this money after closing his hardware store earlier that evening.
The robbers entered through the roof, leaving behind fingerprints on a DVR, which the Police secured as potential evidence.
However, on August 12, Dazzel allegedly killed Fraser during a confrontation. The altercation began when the suspect’s mother reported to him that she was verbally abused.
The young man arrived at the scene with a handgun tucked into his waistband. As such, he rushed into a yard at Leopold Street in Werk-en-Rust, Georgetown.
However, upon seeing the weapon, Fraser approached the suspect in an attempt to disarm him but instead, Dazzel whipped out a knife from a bag hanging around his neck and stabbed Fraser to his left side chest.
After committing the act, he fled the scene on his motorcycle and had managed to evade Police apprehension. Fraser was discovered unconscious and was transported to the Georgetown Public Hospital where he succumbed to his injuries.
Meanwhile, Dazzel along with others is expected to be arraigned for the $6 million robbery before the week ends.
