A 26-year-old miner was on Friday evening stabbed to death at Soesdyke during a fight with the father of his fiancée’s two children following which the alleged killer went on the run from the police.
Kevin Harrison, also of Soesdyke, succumbed in front of the cottage where the fight broke out and his body was removed by the Lyken’s Funeral Parlour some hours later.
Harrison’s fiancée Ofeta Hinkson told Stabroek News that he was killed even as her two children aged 7 and 4 were watching. “ I went to the shop with Kevin when we see Rudolph and he has a 22 cutlass and threaten to chop me up and he start getting on bad so while he rowing I run home to tell my cousin who was here with the children to let we lock up cause Rudolph want kill me,” she said.
She said that the man perhaps though peripheral vision, saw that she was escaping and began chasing her with Harrison in tow. She was locked in the house terrified when the father of her children arrived and began hurling obscenities and expletives. Then she heard that Harrison had arrived and a fight had ensued. “ I open the door and he go to fire a chop but Kevin push he into the wall and try to take away the cutlass from he… the cutlass drop on the ground and Kevin shout to me to pick it up, pick it up,” she said.
The 24-year-old woman said that as she picked up the cutlass she saw Harrison falling to the ground and weakly telling her that he had been stabbed, as he pointed to his side. She said that he told her that her children’s father also had a knife on him which he had used to stab him.
She related that she began running to neighbours for help for the fallen man since she believes that no one heard the fighting because of the generator which was on at her neighbour’s home. It was from there that the police were called, but by the time they arrived the alleged killer had made good his escape.
Harrison’s mother Shirley Harrison described the last of her eight children as industrious and loving. She said she had last heard from him on Thursday afternoon when he called her and she was shocked when on Friday she heard that he had died.
Hinkson also described Harrison as loving, stating that she and he had begun a relationship “a while ago” after she had left the father of her children because of years of abuse.
Harrison who worked in the interior would be away for months and send money for her upkeep. She said that she came to live at the Ideal Road cottage, given to her by one of her cousins, after she was evicted by her landlord at another location because of the bad behaviour of her children’s father. “I get put out from there because he always used to drink up and get drunk and beat me up and cuss up and so and the landlady say she can’t take it no more …she told me I have to find somewhere to go,” the woman said.
She said that when she moved her children’s father would visit and sometimes bring food and money for his children, but always declared that he was still in love with her. “I didn’t want he back because in the seven years plus we were together he always he beat me and this passion is always he,” she said through tears.
Police stated in a release that the suspect had not yet been arrested and that their investigations were continuing.
