A Kildonan Village, Corentyne handyman has succumbed after being wounded during a row outside a village shop.
Police say Richard Dundas, 52, called ‘Mattic,’ died shortly after returning home from the Port Mourant Hospital, where he had been treated for a wound to his heel.
The injury was sustained after a broken bottle was thrown at him by another villager during an argument outside Ivan Dipnarine’s shop.
The villager, Rafael Quintyn, called ‘Feg,’ yesterday morning turned himself in at the Whim Police Station, where he remains detained.
When Stabroek News visited the scene yesterday, a pair of bloodied slippers, which Dundas wore, was found. The slippers and the blood spattered concrete were evidence of the fatal encounter that occurred around 8pm on the previous night.
Dipnarine said he left Dundas seated on a bench in front of his shop, while other villagers were seated on a ramp alongside him.
He recalled that Dundas was rowing and the men seated on the ramp began to pelt him. As a result, Dundas complained to Dipnarine. However, when he questioned the man accused of pelting Dundas, he denied the claim.
Dipnarine then left but while having his dinner he heard the sound of breaking bottles and upon going outside he observed that Dundas was bleeding from his foot. At that point, Dundas identified Quintyn as his attacker.
The shop owner then questioned the man about his reason for pelting Dundas but he denied the claim. Instead, he said Dundas had thrown a bottle at him and had then proceeded to walk on the broken glass.
“At that point, Mattic tell he that he lie and that it was he who pelted the bottle resulting in injuries to he leg,” Dipnarine added.
At that point Quintyn left and Dipnarine wrapped Dundas’ bleeding foot. He said that while he was going to take the wounded man to the hospital, the police arrived and so he put him in their vehicle and then followed them to the Port Mourant hospital.
Dipnarine noted that the doctor on duty stitched the wound, which was a little above the heel, and told Dundas that he would be alright.
“But Mattic got plenty varicose veins and one of them got injured and the bleeding continued after he was taken to his home by the police,” Dipnarine said. He said Dundas’ relatives alerted him to something being amiss and when he hurried across to the man’s house he found him lifeless.
He said police were then alerted.
Dundas, Dipnarine noted, would assist him with his racehorses and any other chores that needed doing. He had been his helper for some 23 years.
“He helps me with my milk pail. Since cow butt me he does fetch me pail to the back street and I would give he a hundred dollar,” added a woman, who was seated nearby.
