Police are on the hunt for the perpetrator/s who allegedly stabbed and killed a 36-year-old miner during a robbery on Thurs-day night in Kaneville, East Bank Demerara (EBD).
Nelson Thomas, called ‘Nelo,’ succumbed to a single stab wound to the chest.
Guyana Police Force (GPF) spokesman Stan Gouveia yesterday confirmed that an investigation has been launched into the killing, which occurred around 9.30 pm.
No arrest had been made up to yesterday afternoon.
Gouveia said that it is suspected that Thomas was returning home when the suspect/s attempted to rob him and he was stabbed in the process. Family members confirmed that Thomas was robbed of a gold chain he was wearing at the time.
Thomas resided at Fourth Field Kaneville with his wife and mother but worked in the interior. He returned home on Thursday to register the birth of his newborn child.
According to a police report, Thomas returned home around 12.30pm on Thursday.
Around 7pm, he inform-ed his mother that he was going to visit an uncle in the area.
A resident of the area told the police that around 9.30 pm, he was aroused by the voice of someone calling out for him. Upon checking, he said he saw Thomas lying motionless in his yard with what appeared to be blood about his body.
The police were immediately alerted. Thomas was taken to the Diamond Hospital, where he was pronounced dead on arrival.
A resident, who wished not to be named, told Stabroek News that she was asleep when she heard someone shouting for her husband.
“I don’t know if was he [Thomas] or it was who because we were sleeping and then we hear somebody call. So then we run out. When we run out now then is when we see him lying there,” the woman said as she point to the spot where Thomas’ body was discovered in the yard.
She said it appeared as through Thomas was attacked and stabbed on the road and he ran into her yard for help. “…It had blood on the road. His top was that way and his slipper. Like they run he or something,” the woman added.
Meanwhile, Shameena Ali, a cousin of the dead man, told this newspaper that hours after Thomas arrived from the interior, he left home to visit an uncle and to go to the barber shop.
However, Ali said by the time Thomas arrived at the barber shop he could not get his hair cut since he was intoxicated.
“Around 8 (Thursday night) he was at the barber shop but the barber told him that he can’t cut his hair because he drink and he said he ain’t want do nonsense to his head so he [Thomas] said ‘alright,’ [that] he will come back in the morning,” she explained.
According to Ali, Thomas spent about half an hour at the barber shop before he left for home.
Ali added that Thomas was wearing a gold chain which was missing. It is believed that his attacker/s must have robbed him of the gold chain either before or after inflicting the deadly wound.
On Thursday night, Ali said the family received a call that Thomas was stabbed. “We didn’t know that he was dead. When we reach to the crime scene we saw him on the floor dead,” Ali said.
Thomas and his wife had plans to register their newborn child yesterday. “The reason why he came out was to sign for his child because he has a newborn baby. So he came out to go and sign for the baby,” Ali noted.
