Taxi driver Orlando Flatts, also called “Orlandy” and “Rango,” of Blue Berry Hill, Wismar Linden, was reportedly stabbed to death by his ex-wife’s lover as, armed with a piece of metal, he forced his way into the woman’s Amelia’s Ward apartment at about 00:30h on Friday.
The woman’s lover, a 22-year-old labourer, was in residence at the time, and he armed himself with a knife and stabbed Flatts once to his abdomen. The lover also received injuries in the confrontation. He was arrested, and is assisting with the investigations.
A knife suspected to be the murder weapon and a wheel spanner extension which the dead man had reportedly used to break into the house have been lodged with Police as evidence.
A neighbour who resides in the lower flat of the home recounted that she was awakened from sleep by a tumbling noise coming from the upper flat.
“I was sleeping and then I heard a noise, and is the big tumbling upstairs. And then I heard the louvre windows fall out in the kitchen and the girl upstairs say, ‘Ayo, come see! Ayo, come see!’ And then me and the other girl, we run outside”, the neighbour recalled.
The woman further stated that she peeked through a window and called out to the persons in the lower flat, but there was no answer. Soon after, she saw the now dead man’s ex-wife and her lover in the yard. The man’s hands were covered in blood, and he was holding a knife, she recalled.
“When I ask he what happen, he said, ‘A thief just break in upstairs, and me and he had a lil scuffle and he end up getting juk. Call the Police’.”
Upon enquiring further, she was told that the injured man was lying on the floor upstairs, and that he was not moving.
The Police were subsequently summoned, and upon arrival, the injured man was picked up and rushed to the Linden Hospital Complex, where he was pronounced dead.
Flatts’s body is at the Linden Hospital Mortuary, awaiting a post-mortem.
