A 28-year-old minibus conductor is now in police custody assisting with investigations in last evening’s stabbing to death of a Leopold Street resident near the Stabroek Market.
Dead is Rawle Rodrigues, 43, a carpenter of 64 Leopold Street, Werk-en-Rust. Police in a statement said that the incident occurred about 21:30 hrs when Rodrigues had an altercation with two men, one of whom delivered a fatal stab to his chest. He was rushed to the Georgetown Public Hospital (GPH) and was pronounced dead on arrival.
The dead man’s sister, Anastacia Rodrigues, told Stabroek News that her brother was making his way from the “Dairy bus park” (Parfait Harmonie) where he had been drinking when he was accosted by two men.
“They traced him from the Dairy bus park and when they attacked him he put up a fight with them… They think he had money on he because they saw he had two phone, a Blu and an iPhone and they managed to take away the iPhone but he didn’t have anything else on him just a hundred dollars in the pocket to catch a bus to go home,” his sister said.
She further explained that based on what she was told, her injured brother managed to run a short distance before he collapsed in front of Demico House from where he was picked up and taken to the Georgetown Public Hospital.
After an hour at the GPH, she was told, that her brother had died, whilst doctors were operating on him.
Rodrigues further disclosed that she was shocked when she found out that the man who was taken into police custody over the incident, was someone known to her; the alleged attacker lives one street away from her Breda Street home.
The death of her brother also stirred up memories of losing a sister in 2010, following an attack on her by a woman who had a child with her then boyfriend.
Her sister, Latisha Rodrigues, a Stabroek Market vendor was reportedly stabbed once in the chest by her boyfriend’s spurned lover, also in the vicinity the Stabroek Market.
The woman was subsequently pronounced dead at the Georgetown Public Hospital.
The grieving sister contended that her brother was hardworking and never troublesome.
The dead man leaves to mourn his three remaining siblings, mother and three children.
