The victim in the Greenwich Park stabbing, Dewaun Anthony Baksh, 22, died of shock and haemorrhage due to five stab wounds. The wounds were inflicted with three different weapons.
This is according to the post-mortem examination conducted yesterday on the remains of Baksh of Tuschen, East Bank Essequibo (EBE). He was stabbed to death on New Year’s Day during an altercation with a group of men at a rum shop at Greenwich Park, EBE.
He sustained injuries to his neck and other parts of his body and a gaping wound to his left shoulder and was pronounced dead on arrival at the Leonora Cottage Hospital where he was rushed after the 9.30 pm incident.
Baksh left home at around 5.40pm on Friday with his twin brother, Dewane and a younger brother, Rafeek, 20, and two friends in a minibus to continue their New Year celebration.
Rafeek had told Stabroek News that they headed to the Bushy Park beach where they spent a little time before going to Meten-Meer-Zorg to the home of another friend who had invited them.
Subsequently, he said, Dewane returned home and they proceeded to a rum shop, popularly known as the ‘Pink Shop.’
According to Rafeek, when they got to the shop, he recognized a “fellow who had a lil vibes with my sister two years ago. I asked him if he could remember me and he said no.”
He said Baksh came up at the same time and asked him if everything was ok and another man who was with the other group shouted, “Wah happen, like you want problems.”
According to Rafeek, he turned and walked away, not realizing his brother was not with him. He then felt someone “lashing me in my head with a bottle and another man cuffing me and I fell.”
His friends came and rescued him but he did not know his brother was badly hurt and lying on the road. They picked up his brother who was still bleeding while they were taking him to the hospital.
