Police do not believe that 44-year-old Julius Chung, who died in his former lover’s home on Wednesday after he attacked her with a knife, killed himself according to Commissioner Henry Greene.
The Top Cop said that there may have been a fight between the two during which the man was mortally wounded.
Speaking to reporters yesterday Greene said that the police are still trying to piece together the evidence but what has been collected so far reveals that the man did not inflict the fatal injury on himself. He said they have not been able to speak to the other victim of the knife attack, 26-year-old Dianne Browne so it is not clear what happened.
“…when we did check the man was dead, I don’t suppose he killed himself, I don’t know, it doesn’t appear so to us. Definitely that man came under the knife not of his own doing, that is our view,” Greene said yesterday. He said he believes that there was a fight between the two and that the woman stabbed the man “but we can’t put anything together right now.” He said the police found two blood-stained knives on the scene.
Browne, had told Stabroek News on Wednesday that the man had opened the door to her home, kicked down the door of the room in which she was hiding and attacked her with a knife. She said she fought for her life before escaping and did not know he had died until later. She had said that the man hugged her and she thought he was about to kiss her but felt a stab to her back and it was then she realised he was there to kill her. The young woman said she fought valiantly for her life and in the process she was cut on several of her fingers.
“I really fight he. You see how me fingers cut up and so? I fight and I fight and I get to run away and run up the stairs at me neighbour and tell he what happen. A boy then carry me to the hospital,” the woman had said from her hospital bed.
Yesterday the woman’s condition deteriorated and she was moved to the High Dependency Unit (HDU) of the Georgetown Public Hospital (GPHC).
The young woman’s sister, Alicia Browne, who had opened the door for the police said that the police only found one knife at the crime scene. The young woman, who only gave birth to a baby boy 12 days ago, said she had gone to the market and on her way back she was given the tragic news. At the time her baby boy and a one-year-old niece were in the house.
She said when she arrived she saw the police and a crowd at the scene and she opened the door with a key in order for the police to enter the house.
“When the police went in the room I see they pick up one knife and put it in plastic bag them ent find no other knife. Me sister wouldn’t stab he, me sister is not like that, and all she fingers get cut up how she go stab he,” the young woman queried.
A younger sister of the woman, Anika, said that the man who took her sister to the hospital on a bicycle reported that he had seen the man at the door as he was riding away and he was willing to give the police a statement.
The mother of Browne, Jacqueline Rodrigues said that the lawmen told her they found one knife and they were expected to take it to her for her to ascertain whether it was a knife from her home.
“But we only get one knife in this house and look it deh right here,” the young woman said yesterday afternoon.
The landlord who lives above the apartment, Lawrence Ferdinand, had told Stabroek News that the woman had sought his help, bleeding profusely. He had said the young woman rapped on his door and when he looked out he saw her holding her side and bleeding and she told him that her child father had stabbed her. The man had also stated that the woman said she was afraid to go back downstairs even though he urged her to seek help to go to the hospital. He had to go downstairs with her and was armed with a cutlass and she went through the gate but he did not see Chung and only knew the man had died when the police came.
Browne had said she had told the man that it was over and he refused to accept it and threatened her constantly.
Her sister had said that he would send her threatening text messages and one time even told her he would have killed the entire family.
Yesterday the mother of Browne said her daughter told her nothing about the problems the two were having but she knew there were problems as her daughter never wanted the man to enter the house.
“Every time he come I would let he in the house but she would say ‘mommy don’t encourage this man here you don’t know wah he does do.’ And then me daughter now tell me when I ent deh home he use to come and if you hear the expressions he use to use and he would go in the bedroom,” the woman said yesterday.
She said she would have never expected Chung to commit such an act since as far as she knew he was not violent. She is praying that her daughter pulls through and in the meantime wants to know the whereabouts of her grandson, Justin, who was taken by Chung a few weeks ago.
Browne had told Stabroek News that she had allowed him to take the child, who is just over a year, as she wanted to get a job and could not cope with taking care of him and another child she has at the same time. (Oluatoyin Alleyene)