A 21-year-old man passed away at the Georgetown Public Hospital on Monday evening, hours after he was reportedly beaten by residents at Enterprise, East Coast Demerara.
Dead is Levi Jamal Alleyne, of Lot 165 Meadow Brook Drive and Lot 222 Dazzell Housing Scheme, East Coast Demerara.
His mother, Diane Alleyne, told Stabroek News yesterday that her son left to go to work on Monday at the Muneshwer’s wharf, where he was employed as a stevedore, but was unable to secure work that day so he decided to head to his father’s residence.
“He leff fuh go to work at the wharf and he ain get wuk so he end up going up Paradise, by he father,” the woman said.
According to Alleyne, she was told that he was making his way through Enterprise when he was accosted by a group of persons who started to beat him.
“Enterprise is the short cut to go by he father, ’cause it shorter, and a group of people hold on pon he and beat he. The is wah I hear. When we go at the hospital, he was there laying. He didn’t die yet. He die last night (Monday),” Alleyne said.
“He would normally use the same route from small, since he going to school, ’cause he used to go to school in Enterprise,” the woman added.
While it was reported that he was beaten after he stole a cellular phone from a resident in the area, Alleyne questioned the fact that nobody has made a report about the alleged theft. “I go back at the Vigilance station after he died and no one had made any report. The police say them get an unknown call that a man deh on the road lie down and when them, go they pick he up and rush he to the hospital,” she noted.
She also questioned the fact that no one claims to know what has happened. “This thing happen since minutes to twelve the afternoon. Everybody saying that they ain’t see anything but this thing happen day time. Somebody had to see. Somebody gotta know. Is not night time it happen,” the woman said.
Meanwhile, a post-mortem examination is expected to be conducted today on Alleyne’s body.
