– 15-year-old suspect in custody
An 18-year-old labourer was stabbed to death during a drunken brawl at Line Path, Skeldon around 10.40 pm on Sunday and his 15-year-old attacker has been taken into custody at the Springlands Police Station.
Reports are that Keron Caldeira was rushed to the Skeldon Hospital where he succumbed within 15 minutes while receiving treatment. He sustained wounds to the left side of his neck.
Stabroek News learned that the two were drinking in the company of others when an argument erupted over a pair of boots belonging to Caldeira that the attacker was reportedly wearing.
According to reports, persons had managed to “quiet the two of them” but the argument continued. Caldeira then reportedly cuffed the suspect twice behind his head and left to go into the house. He armed himself with a broken bottle while the suspect who had followed him, retrieved a knife from the house and dealt him the stabs.
The suspect’s mother said she was sleeping at the time of the argument but was awakened by her son shouting “mommy! mommy!” When she got up to investigate why the boy was so hysterical, she saw Caldeira lying in a pool of blood.
She said her husband was “trying to look after him and we took him to the hospital”. She said the police were informed and they visited the scene and retrieved the broken bottle and a pair of slipper belonging to the Caldeira. She could not say what happened of the knife that was used in the attack. The police said last night that they had retrieved the knife.
The woman lamented that her son and the dead teen were getting along fine prior to the incident and that they “used to go swimming together…”
She recalled sadly that she cooked “duck curry and dhal and rice yesterday [Sunday] and the two of them eat and [son’s name] even shared some of he own with Keron.” She said though, “because of the alcohol in dey system that’s why that happen.”
She said Caldeira was working in the area and that his father had rented a room at her house for him. She said he had been staying there for the past two months.
Caldeira’s father, Winston Caldeira, 40, told Stabroek News yesterday that he received a telephone call around 11.10 pm on Sunday from the hospital. He said he was told that his son had been involved in an incident and had been taken there.
He said he rushed to the hospital but by the time he got there he learnt that his son “got stab and he did not make it.”
Caldeira leaves to mourn his father, his mother who resides overseas and his six siblings. He was the eldest child.
