The woman who reportedly murdered her former boyfriend’s current girlfriend is known by police but is still on the run, a senior police source said.
In a press release issued yesterday afternoon police said that they were investigating the murder of Latisha Rodrigues called ‘Samantha’ and ‘Mama’. The woman was murdered around 7 pm on Sunday at the Stabroek Market area. Police, the source said, were still on the lookout for the suspect up to late yesterday afternoon.
It is alleged, the police release further said, that the victim and a woman who she knew had an argument, during which the woman inflicted a single stab wound to Rodrigues’ upper chest.
Rodrigues died while receiving medical attention at the Georgetown Public Hospital.
Her sister Anastasia Gordon had told this newspaper that Rodrigues had been battling with her attacker for about five years; ever since she started a relationship with a man who is currently in jail.
Last week, Gordon explained, she returned home from Trinidad where she worked. It was nothing new, she said, to hear Rodrigues complain about continuous confrontations with the woman.
After the woman confronted her sister at the Stabroek Market on Saturday, Gordon recalled, Rodrigues told her and other relatives that her longstanding rival had threatened to kill her. “This woman tell my sister that she going to bus’ she up,” Gordon had reported.
Reports reaching this newspaper said that some time around 7 pm on Sunday her sister’s attacker had sent a male friend to start an argument with Rodrigues.
It was while Rodrigues’ attention had reportedly been centred on the argument with the man that the woman had launched her attack.
Meanwhile, when Stabroek News visited the woman’s Breda Street, Georgetown home yesterday one of her five surviving siblings explained that they were in the process of preparing for a wake. The man further said that they’d heard nothing from police and could not say whether his sister’s attacker had been found.
