A Bachelor’s Adventure youth was found murdered yesterday a short distance away from his home and his family is at a loss as to why.
The body of Keith Andrew Willis, 23 of Lot 374 Bachelor’s Adventure, East Coast Demerara, which bore a stab wound to the neck, was discovered lying along the access road, about four houses away from his home.
Willis had left home on Sunday afternoon to visit a friend and failed to return home.
The mother of the deceased, Mohinie Sukar, told Stabroek News that she was alerted shortly after the discovery of his body yesterday morning. At about 5.35 am yesterday, while preparing a meal for her younger son, she heard a call from someone at the gate to her yard. Sukar said she saw three young men standing outside of her gate and they asked her if her son was at home. The woman told them that one of her sons was home but another did not return home after leaving the house on Sunday afternoon.
Sukar said the men then requested that she put on her slippers and follow them. However, the woman told them she had “heart issues” and demanded that they tell her if something was wrong with her son.
She told this newspaper that one of the men then asked that she follow them to verify if it was her son lying dead on the street.
The woman indicated that she could not go and asked that her younger son accompany them. He did and Sukar shared that upon returning from the scene he confirmed her worst fears: that it was in fact his brother lying on the street.
Sukar, in the company of neighbours, subsequently made her way to the scene where she saw her son’s dead body on the street, bleeding and with foam at his mouth. She said Willis had no shirt on as it appeared to have been placed at his neck in effort to apply pressure to the wound.
The grieving mother shared that it appeared that Willis was trying to make it home after he was attacked but he collapsed and bled out four houses before his own.
When asked where Willis left to go on Sunday afternoon, Sukar explained that he left at about 4.30 pm to visit his daughter at her mother’s home a short distance away before heading to a friend’s house in Dazzell Housing Scheme.
The mother said that while he stated he would be returning a little late, he never returned. Sukar noted that she contacted the friend he had gone to visit on Sunday afternoon and was told that he had left for home between 10.30 and 11 pm that same night.
The woman noted that Willis’ body was already stiff when they found him yesterday morning.
Sukar said Willis, who was a mechanic by trade, began doing labourer work after the mechanic shop where he worked closed due to the COVID-19 pandemic.
The woman said she wants justice for her son as it was hard to lose him after working hard as a single parent of four to take care of her children.
He was described as a respectful and loving individual who had no known problems with anyone.
Meanwhile, a police report stated that Willis was murdered between 11pm on Sunday and 6.10 am on Monday at the Bachelor’s Adventure Access Road.
Investigators said Willis left home to attend a football competition, after which he visited his fiancée in Paradise Housing Scheme.
At about 5.30 am, however, a resident of Bachelor’s Adventure who was heading to work observed Willis’ body lying on the roadway and summoned the police.
The report added that on arrival at the scene, lawmen observed the victim lying motionless on the road and an examination uncovered what appeared to be a single stab wound to the left side of his neck.
Willis’ body was subsequently picked up and escorted to the Georgetown Public Hospital where he was pronounced dead by a doctor on duty.
