A West Bank Demerara fisherman died on Thursday afternoon after he was stabbed twice by another man during an argument.
Leroy Khan, 36, of 79 Barclay Road, Goed Fortuin was stabbed by a man known to him during an argument at the village koker. The alleged assailant is in police custody and will be arraigned at the Wales Magistrate’s Court on Monday.
Doris Khan, the dead man’s mother, told Stabroek News yesterday that sometime after 4 pm on Thursday, as she got off a bus on the Goed Fortuin Public Road “… a boy come running and tell me ‘Aunty Doris come quick down by the koker Leroy get stab up’ and I hurry and follow he.”
When she arrived, the last of her five children was being lifted into the back of a meat van. He was bleeding profusely and she noticed two stab wounds; one in the region of his heart and another on his hand. She said his forehead was also swollen and had a laceration.
The woman said she boarded the vehicle and they were taken to the West Demerara Regional Hospital, where doctors began emergency care. But shortly after, she was given the devastating news that her son had succumbed.
A post-mortem examination was performed yesterday by Government Pathologist Dr Nehaul Singh, who gave the cause of death as perforation of the heart due to stab wound to the chest.
At Khan’s home yesterday, villagers and friends gathered and lamented his death. T
hey described him as a fun-loving person, who hardly got into arguments with people. As a result, they found it strange that he would be fatally wounded during an argument.
His mother referred to him as her “baby,” who was always there for her as he had no wife or children. She stressed how much he will be missed, especially by her.
His family has since made arrangements to have him buried on Sunday.
