A Swan Village labourer was on Saturday night fatally stabbed following an argument at a shop where he was drinking with friends and family.
The deceased has been identified as 18-year-old Roy Boston of Lot 5 Swan Village, Linden- Soesdyke Highway.
According to a police report, at about 10:15 pm on Saturday, while at the shop imbibing, an argument ensued and Boston pulled out a knife and stabbed a man in the left side of his abdomen and left side of his back.
Boston then began using obscene language to those around and he and the suspect then ended up in a scuffle resulting in the 39-year-old suspect stabbing him in the left side of his chest and cutting him on his right thumb, causing him to fall to the ground. The suspect then fled the scene.
An aunt of the deceased, Amenna Daniels who spoke with newspaper, recalled that sometime after 10 pm, shortly after she had retired to bed, she was alerted by screams coming from the shop. The woman said she heard someone say that the suspect had killed her nephew. She said by this time, she was running in the direction of the shop. When she got there, Boston was already dead, Daniels said.
She said another man was lying nearby bleeding. According to Daniels, Boston and the injured man were in an argument which she believes was over a female minor who is the mother of a 9-month-old baby, fathered by Boston. Daniels said a while ago social services had gotten involved in the matter and saw that the two ended their relationship while the baby was adopted by the teen’s adopted grandmother. The other man who was injured during Saturday night’s incident is said to currently be in a relationship with the teen.
Daniels said she learnt from an eyewitness who was at the shop that following the altercation with the injured man, Boston was punched in the face by another of the men there before he was stabbed by the suspect. The woman said she hasn’t heard how it was that the man who shares a relationship with the teen was injured.
“One of our cousins reach [the suspect] on the road and ask he what happen down there bai and [the suspect replied], ‘I just done Roy’. Then the cousin say, ‘How you gon do that bai’. Same time Roy’s mother was coming from behind and said, ‘[name of suspect] is what you just seh’ and he tell she ‘I just done yuh son because he does want play mannish’. Roy mother said, ‘Tell me is lie, tell me you just ain’t kill me son! And, [the suspect] continued running in the same direction he was going,” stated Daniels.
The woman said that twenty minutes later when the police arrived at the scene and went to the suspect’s house he could not be found. Daniels in speaking to a friend who was at the shop with Boston, said she was told by the young man that he couldn’t defend Boston as they were outnumbered.
She said that Boston was never one to carry a knife on him but said that it was the suspect who would roam the village with a knife on him.
The suspect, she said is her and Roy’s mother’s cousin. Daniels who sells hotdogs and other food items said that two Saturdays ago the suspect who was under the influence of alcohol had stopped by her stand and tried “hugging and kissing” her and when she rebuffed him, he pulled out a “long knife”. She said she asked a passerby to talk to the suspect and as such the suspect was led away. She added that the only time the suspect behaves this way is when he imbibes.
Boston was pronounced dead at the Diamond Hospital. His body is currently at the Memorial Gardens Funeral Home awaiting a post-mortem examination.
