An argument between two fish cleaners at the Meadow Bank wharf yesterday morning ended with one being fatally stabbed to the neck.
Marlon Greene, 23, of Meadow Bank koker, Georgetown, died at the Georgetown Public Hospital shortly after midday.
Greene, Stabroek News learnt, had been arguing with another fish cleaner and the two started to fight. Greene’s assailant, identified only as “Blondie,” reportedly pushed him to the ground and stabbed him with a knife used to clean fish. Police were up to late yesterday afternoon hunting for the perpetrator.
Crime Chief Seelall Persaud told Stabroek News that the man fled the scene after wounding Greene.
Some time after 9 am, Michelle Vieira said, Blondie started “picking trouble” with her cousin and making certain “provocative” remarks. Greene answered the man, she said, and the two started to argue. The deceased lived a short distance from the wharf. “I can’t tell you exactly what they been arguing about but when I run out the house and see them they been cussing one an’ other up,” Vieira explained.
The woman said that as the argument between Greene and Blondie escalated, the men ended up in a scuffle. It was at this point that her brother, Andre Vieira, made several efforts to part the men. However, her brother was unable to stop the fight and Blondie managed to fling Greene to the ground. “Like when he fall, he knock he head or something and is then Blondie go over he and start stab he,” Vieira recalled. “After he done, he start to run.”
Greene was subsequently rushed to GPH, where he died while receiving medical attention.
Blondie, according to the woman, frequently tormented her cousin and the two would argue. “This man always troubling my cousin,” she said.
Last Sunday, Vieira told this newspaper, the perpetrator had started an argument with Greene and had threatened to kill him. The threat, according to Vieira, was never reported to police.
Both men, the woman said, had been working at the Meadow Bank fish processing plant for a while. As far as she knows, Vieira said, the man never attacked Greene physically prior to yesterday.
Greene is survived by a younger brother. “All two parents for them die and they actually grow up with us,” Vieira said. She described her cousin as an honest man who was not afraid to put in hard work to get the things he wanted.
The man’s body is currently at the GPH morgue and a post-mortem examination is expected to be conducted tomorrow morning.
