An East La Penitence youth was knifed to death shortly after he left a masjid where he had gone to pray last evening.
Adonie Parbhoo, 18, of Freeman Street, East La Penitence, had just left the masjid and was walking with a colleague, Shawn De Santos, on West Ruimveldt Front Road, when two men rode up to them on a CG motorcycle.
The pillion rider disembarked and attacked Parbhoo, stabbing him several times, before clambering back on to the motorcycle and disappearing in the dark.
The incident occurred around 7.30 pm. However, the badly wounded Parbhoo was left lying on the road for about half an hour before being transported to the Georgetown Public Hospital (GPH).
An eyewitness said that owing to his bloodied state, no one wanted to put him in their car and it was not until another colleague from the same masjid arrived on the scene that he was picked up and transported to the hospital.
At the hospital, the loud blowing of vehicle horns and some motorcycles which were racing through the streets cleared a path as Parbhoo was taken into the hospital compound.
When the wounded teen was removed from the car, his entire body was covered in blood while his face was disfigured.
Shortly after Parbhoo was rushed into the hospital’s Accident and Emergency Unit, loud cries erupted in the waiting area as the doctors on duty pronounced him dead. Some of the family members had to be restrained by others as the news created uproar amongst relatives.
Scores of youths, most of whom are members of the masjid Parbhoo attended, had also gathered at the hospital.
De Santos who was in company of Parbhoo at the time of the stabbing said that the motorcycle had appeared “from nowhere.
“Just suh de man come and kill me brother. He just start stabbing him all over,” De Santos said. Reduced to tears, he stopped speaking and walked away.
A woman who lives where the stabbing occurred said that she heard someone shouting “murder, murder” and when she looked out she saw the wounded Parbhoo stumble about three times before he fell to the ground.
Family members were outraged and shocked since they said that Parbhoo was never involved in any problem with anyone which might have led to the stabbing.
“He was a very quiet person, he don’t get in problem with anybody,” a relative stated, as she explained that Parbhoo had recently travelled home from the interior where he worked so that he could observe Ramadan.
He leaves to mourn his mother, one brother, two sisters and other relatives and friends.
