An Angoy’s Avenue, New Amsterdam man yesterday succumbed to stab injuries while being treated at the New Amsterdam Public Hospital.
Dead is Nickosie Vankenie, also known as “Scarie”, 23, of High Dam, Angoy’s Avenue. He reportedly sustained a stab injury on Friday to his neck and two in his chest.
The suspect, 29, who is from Pope Street, New Amsterdam, was arrested yesterday on the Corentyne at around 1 pm, this newspaper was told.
Police in a statement noted that the suspect was cooperating and that investigators were in receipt of a statement from an eyewitness.
The deceased’s aunt, Angela Vankenic, 59, yesterday stated that around 10 pm on Friday the family received information that her nephew had been stabbed multiple times. She said he was rushed to the New Amsterdam Public Hospital where around 1.30 am yesterday he succumbed to the injuries sustained while in the hospital’s Intensive Care Unit.
She relayed that based on eyewitness information, Vankenie and the suspect were imbibing with a group of persons at a shop located on Patrick’s Dam, Angoy’s Avenue. She was told that Vankenie purchased a Guinness and took a few sips and then sat down on a table next to the suspect.
“Them say he turn around and gaffing and when he turn around back he beer not there but then he ask and this boy say he take it, so he tell the boy that them two is na friends like that for he to pick up his beer”.
The woman stated that they were told that an argument then ensued between the two which quickly led to an altercation resulting in Vankenie being stabbed.
According to the aunt, the suspect reportedly used “something like a scissors” to stab the deceased.
Vankenie, a graduate of the New Amsterdam Technical Institute, was described as a friendly and helpful person. “He had a lot of friends, everybody did know he in the town”, his aunt said.
