A suspect in Monday night’s stabbing to death of a West Ruimveldt businessman, yesterday turned himself in to police and is currently assisting with investigations.
Desmond Davis called `Lion’ of East Ruimveldt Housing Scheme was stabbed multiple times about the body and left for dead in a dark alleyway not far from where he lived.
Police said in a press release yesterday the body of the 38-year-old Internet Café owner was discovered in an alleyway on Mandela Avenue around 7:20 pm.
Investigations so far revealed that Davis was involved in an argument with another man during which he was alleged to have been fatally stabbed, the release said, adding that a suspect has been arrested and is in police custody as the investigations continue.
Davis was pronounced dead on arrival at the Georgetown Public Hospital and suffered deep stab wounds to the region of his heart and other areas of his body.
Stabroek News was told that sometime after 7 pm, an argument erupted between Davis and another man. No one could say what the men were arguing about but Davis reportedly went home, armed himself with a cutlass and went back to the scene.
Persons who claimed to have owitnessed the incident said Davis found the man and started advancing with the weapon. According to the eyewitnesses, what happened next was hard to determine because a power outage hit the area and within a few minutes, no one really knew what had transpired.
One of the eyewitnesses said that the man who Davis approached might have been assisted by a friend and the two overpowered him. The eyewitness said that Davis’s cutlass was used to inflict the injuries he suffered.
Details of what transpired after Davis was stabbed are sketchy as various persons offered disjointed accounts, but what was clear was that no one ventured into the alley for a short while after Davis was stabbed.
When this newspaper visited the area yesterday residents were still in shock and there was talk that two persons were involved in the attack.
A woman close to the dead man said that she saw at least four stab wounds while another resident said that the man sustained many stabs to his back.
The woman added too that the man turned himself in at the West Ruimveldt outpost and up to late yesterday afternoon he was still there.
