Two men, held over the death of Rawle Blackman, who succumbed on Sunday after hitting his head on a metal bar attached to a parked container, have been granted station bail.
According to Blackman’s sister Patricia, the driver of the Mitsubishi motorcar, numbered PKK 4069, who had earlier confessed to having trailed the deceased to the point of his demise, along with another man who was a passenger, were in police custody following the accident. However, they were released on $200,000 station bail each.
The young woman also revealed that her other brother, who is a security guard, was working in the area at the time. She said her brother relayed to her that he saw Blackman riding up the street with the black car in tow and he called out to his brother. As a result, he related that Blackman turned to see who it was that was calling him and that was when the car struck him down.
On Sunday afternoon, Blackman was on his bicycle heading south along Wellington Street when he collided with the Mitsubishi motorcar and the container, which was directly opposite the building that once housed Strand Cinema. Persons in the area had related that the driver of the car trailed Blackman and deliberately “braced” him to the container, causing him to fall and hit his head on a metal attached to the vessel.
However, the driver had claimed that Blackman had just attacked a young woman and snatched her gold chain somewhere on Water Street. As a result, he said he trailed the alleged chain snatcher, who looked back when in the vicinity of the container, causing him to ride into it.
Meanwhile, Blackman’s mother Carmen Blackman, who suffers from high blood pressure and diabetes, had to be rushed to the Georgetown Public Hospital on Tuesday as a result of “taking on” the death of her youngest son.
