A Mahaicony labourer was fatally stabbed on Saturday by a man who had uttered threats to him following a dispute last week.
The dead man has been identified as Andy Mohamed, 27, and popularly known as ‘Randy’ or ‘Gaza’ of New Providence also known as Wash Clothes, Mahaicony, East Coast Demerara (ECD).
Police yesterday in a statement said the stabbing occurred at about 7.20 pm at Perth Village, Branch Road, Mahaicony, ECD.
From preliminary investigations, police said the victim was assaulted with a bottle by another male and as a result fell to the ground bleeding from a wound to his neck.
As a result of his injuries, the victim was picked up and escorted to the Mahaicony Cottage Hospital, and died at about 8:45 pm whilst receiving treatment.
His mother, Annie Kumar told Stabroek News that she heard her son was purchasing a beverage from a roadside stall at Perth, Mahaicony when he was attacked.
She said her son was attacked from the back and after being dealt a blow in his head he was stabbed twice in his neck.
The grieving mother explained that her son bled profusely at the scene and was there for at least an hour before he was taken to the hospital.
“I was home when I got the call that he get stabbed up. By time I reach to the hospital they tell me he dead. I hear after he reach, he dead five minutes after and doctor said he bleed nuff,” the mother said.
The mother explained that during the course of last week her son was involved in an argument over a taxi fare.
“I don’t know but his friends were telling me that last week he dropped a girl in the dam and this man (suspect) started to argue because he said my son charged too much for the drop.
I hear my son give back the girl the money after the argument and left…” the mother related.
She noted that while her son is not a taxi driver, he recently bought a car and was working it out of the village.
“A day last week he picked up a girl and dropped her off but he charged $600 and the man caused an issue over that and his friends tell me they had an argument but he never tell me anything,” the mother said.
She feels the police are not doing enough to apprehend the suspect as they have not visited the community to search for him.
The mother stated that she last spoke with her son on Saturday afternoon when he dropped a bottle of gas for her.
“He come and dropped the bottle of gas for me and we talk. He eat and then left to go home but he never reach home. He does always be liming at this place where he get stabbed,” the distraught mother said.
The body is currently at Bailey’ Funeral Home awaiting an autopsy. (David Papannah)
