A peacemaker was stabbed to death on Christmas Eve at Konawaruk, Potaro after he intervened in an argument between two miners.
Jevon Fraser, 26, of 31 Golden Fleece, West Coast Berbice, died at the Georgetown Public Hospital yesterday morning. The young miner was stabbed several times to his body by one of the two miners.
According to his father, Collin Fraser, Jevon was trying make peace between the two men when one of them turned on him and stabbed him to his neck, and when he fell, the man continued to knife him.
The older Fraser said his daughter had called Jevon and told him to come home to see his one-month-old baby. “He never saw the child and we wanted him to come home for Christmas and he promised he would,” Collin Fraser said.
Jevon Fraser was rushed to the Georgetown Public Hospital on Christmas morning; by Christmas night he had slipped into a coma and was placed on life support.
Collin Fraser said early Christmas morning his son called him and told him that he was stabbed. “But I didn’t expect it was so serious and when I reach at the hospital five doctors surround he and he wasn’t talking anymore.”
Fraser had started working in the interior two years ago after he returned from Nevis in the Caribbean.
Police are investigating the matter and the man who allegedly stabbed him is also receiving treatment at the hospital, where he is under police guard.
