The knife fight in Albert-town, Georgetown that left two men dead on Friday night stemmed from an argument over the purchase of cigarettes, the police said yesterday.
One of the dead men has been identified as Jermine Adrian Jeffrey, 25, a labourer of Lot 48 Pike Street Kitty. The other was still only identified as “Rasta Man.”
The fight between the two men occurred around 9.40 pm along Fifth Street, Alberttown.
The police, in a press release yesterday, said that initial investigations revealed that the man known as “Rasta Man” was at a stall when Jeffrey approached and asked to purchase cigarettes.
“He (Rasta Man) refused and they engaged in an argument, which resulted in a scuffle,” the police said
Both men wounded each other and they were rushed to the Georgetown Public Hospital where they were pronounced dead on arrival.
Relatives of Jeffrey yesterday told Sunday Stabroek that they were still trying to understand what led to the fatal encounter.
His mother, Kenyetta Jeffrey, said she last saw him alive on Friday evening when he left home for Alberttown with a friend.
“I don’t know nothing… I don’t know wah happen… all I know is just that I get a phone call that he get stab up,” Kenyetta said.
She noted that her son used to live with her but moved about a month ago to reside with a friend in Alberttown.
However, he would still visit on a daily basis, she noted.
Efforts made by this newspaper to locate the family of “Rasta Man” proved futile.
An eyewitness, who wished not to be named had previously related to this newspaper that he saw one of the two men running out from a yard and throwing glass bottles at the other.
The man further noted that after the bottles were thrown, the two men got into a fight and dealt each other multiple stab wounds.
“The man run out from the yard… with a setta bottles and start shying at a man inside deh. Next thing you know, the man run out from inside there and the two of them collide down deh (in front of D&J Shipping Services in Fifth Street),” the man had said.
The eyewitness explain-ed that while “Rasta Man” was left lying in Fifth Street, Jeffrey ran and later collapsed just at the intersection of Cummings and Fifth Street, Alberttown.
