As the police investigation into the more than one-week-old murder of 18-year-old Rivaldo Williams continues, Commander of ‘A’ Division Marlon Chapman yesterday said several persons were questioned but the main suspect is yet to be apprehended.
Williams, called ‘Romeo’ and ‘Dutty,’ a mason of Lot 37 Friendship, East Bank Demerara was fatally stabbed around 11.30 pm last Sunday after he and his family stopped to buy fish and chips along the Diamond Access Road, EBD.
He sustained a single stab wound and was pronounced dead on arrival at the Diamond Hospital, where he was rushed after the attack.
The police in a press statement had said that investigation revealed that Williams left a wedding reception and was on his way home when he stopped to purchase fish and chips.
“Subsequently a group of men was seen fleeing the location,” the police added.
Williams was later found with a stab wound.
Camille Williams, the dead teen’s mother, had explained to this newspaper that she and Rivaldo were among a group of persons who attended a relative’s wedding in Diamond.
She said that they left the wedding in a minibus filled with relatives and on their way home they decided to stop to purchase food.
She said several persons, including Rivaldo, disembarked the bus in order to make the purchase.
“…The children them guh go to purchase the fish and chips and I leave in the bus with my daughter and meh husband and meh granddaughter them… Next thing yuh know, somebody holler ‘Y’all come see wah happen to Romeo’. By time dah, me big daughter run out the bus and I run behind meh daughter like a three minutes after,” Camille said.
She stated that when she rushed out of the bus, she noticed Rivaldo lying on the roadway.
Alana Lewis, a friend of Rivaldo, told this newspaper that a man attempted to rob one of Rivaldo’s cousins.
This, Lewis said, led to the confrontation.
