Venezuelan national hacked to death during drunken argument

A Venezuelan miner was, in the wee hours of Friday, hacked to death during a drunken argument at Quartzstone Landing, a Cuyuni riverine community in Region Seven (Cuyuni-Mazaruni).
The dead man has been identified as 21-year-old Adrian Williams, a miner from San Martin in Venezuela.
According to information received, the perpetrator is another Venezuelan national called “Pellupa”.
Police have said that at about 23:30h on Thursday evening, Williams was imbibing at a shop in the area with the suspect and another Venezuelan national called ‘Barber’. The owner of the shop told police that he closed his business and retired to bed at about 23:00h. However, about 30 minutes later, he heard a loud noise emanating from the front of his shop.
Upon investigating, he saw the deceased and ‘Barber’ involved in a scuffle, but they were eventually separated by onlookers. After they left, the shop owner returned to bed.
However, another resident in the area related that, around the same time, he also had heard a loud noise, and upon venturing outside, he observed the suspect (Pellupa) standing over an injured Williams with a cutlass, attempting to chop him further. Pellupa was nevertheless deterred by onlookers, and made his escape, leaving an injured Williams in the middle of the walkway in a pool of blood.
Police were summoned to the area, and they found the body of the 21-year-old man on the ground, clad in short pants and wearing neither footwear nor top.
The ranks examined the body and observed several chop wounds to the right-side chin, throat, the left side head, and the right shoulder. A small bottle of alcoholic beverage was found in the dead man’s pants pocket.
Efforts are being made to apprehend both suspects with whom Williams had last been seen alive, even as investigations are ongoing.