A 31-year-old carpenter of Ithaca, West Bank Berbice was chopped to death during a brawl at Zorg-en-Hoop Scheme, Blairmont around 9:15 last night and several suspects were taken into custody.
Brentnol Isaacs, called ‘Towny’ succumbed to the wounds on his right arm and stomach while in an ambulance on his way to the Georgetown Public Hospital. He was first rushed to the Fort Wellington Hospital where he was treated.
A resident told this newspaper that persons would usually go to the place and “gamble and that does cause fights.”
Isaacs’ relatives said he called the name of the man who dealt him the chops and they assisted police in searching for him. They assisted police to arrest him after they learnt that he was hiding in his uncle’s house nearby. Another suspect is on the run.
A cousin told Stabroek News that they were already asleep around
11 pm when they received a message that “there was a problem at the back there.” They also heard that Isaacs tried to run in to someone’s yard.
When they got to the scene they learnt that he had been chopped and that he had already been taken to the hospital. One of the attackers also tried to “rush one of me other cousins… but me cousin ain’t had no time with he.”
She is not sure what transpired before the chopping but said she did not hear them arguing.
A nearby resident said he was in his yard after 7 pm when he saw the main suspect’s stepfather passing on the street.
A few young men from around the area were at the stepfather’s shack drinking. Shortly after the man got home the resident said he heard loud noise coming from the shack.
Two of the men who were with them were passing after and “me wife asked he ‘wah really going on over deh?’ One a dem said he don’t know but the other one said ‘somebody ah guh dead’.”
The resident said too that in the process of searching for the suspects, the victim’s relatives “come and bruk up the shack… but dem nah find dem.” But Isaacs’s relatives said they did not break the house but they met it like that.
According to the resident, the men were “totally wrong to kill the man… he don’t interfere with anyone.”
Reports are that the suspect’s relatives are claiming that the victim went into his yard [suspect’s] with a “long bamboo” and threatened them.
Isaacs leaves to mourn his six-year-old son, Brentnol Jr.
