A 21-year-old man was on Wednesday night found stabbed to death in the ransacked shop where he worked at Tiger Creek Backdam, North West District (NWD).
Dead is Tyrell Evans of Port Kaituma, NWD whose body is presently at the Port Kaituma Morgue awaiting a post-mortem examination. Two men who were seen leaving the shop moments before the body was found are still at large.
Police said in a press release yesterday that shop attendant Evans was found with a suspected stab wound to his chest.
He was taken to the Port Kaituma Hospital where he was pronounced dead on arrival, the release said,
adding that two men were seen earlier entering the shop and running away shortly after.
The shop was found ransacked but it has not yet been ascertained if anything was stolen, the release said, adding that investigations are continuing.
When this newspaper made contact with the young man’s parents they expressed shock at the killing and urged the police to act swiftly to ensure that the perpetrators are caught.
His mother, Yonell Evans said that on Wednesday night she spoke to the person that her son worked with. She said that it was related to her that Evans was left in the shop with two females and subsequently they (the females) left and went down to the creek to wash.
Yonell said that she was told that while the females were away, a neighbour heard someone screaming but thought nothing much of it as Evans usually joked around. She said that according to the neighbour the screams continued and it was when the females returned that they found the wounded Evans.
According to Yonell, the neighbour did not recall seeing anyone running from the shop in the moments prior to the discovery of the body.
Asked what the motive for the killing could be, the woman expressed the belief that it could not have been a robbery. She explained that sometime back her son was the victim of a robbery and two persons were charged while another had managed to escape arrest. She opined that the person who is yet to be arrested may be behind the attack on her son as the date for the case is fast approaching.
Yonell said that the two young men were working at a location some distance from Tiger Creek and they left the area after persons started asking them their names. The two young men, she said, were last seen heading in the direction of Tiger Creek.
She could not recall the last time she spoke with her son.
“I want the police to find them”, she said adding that the family wants them to cooperate with them as they need justice.
Evans is the second of eight children for his parents.
