A Lyng Street, Charlestown vendor was fatally stabbed on Sunday by his neighbour, who wrongfully accused him of posting an intimate video of him (the suspect) and his girlfriend on social media.
Dead is 48-year-old Carl Cameron, called ‘Rasta Man,’ of Lot 33 Lyng Street, Charlestown, who police say was stabbed five times by Kevin Hendricks, 30, who is now wanted.
According to a Guyana Police Force statement, a week prior to the stabbing, Cameron and Hendricks had an issue over a video that surfaced on social media. It was claimed by Hendricks that Cameron posted a video of him and his girlfriend being intimate. Following this claim, on Sunday at about 6 pm, Hendricks armed himself with an icepick, which he allegedly used to stab the man three times in his chest and two times in his back.
Cameron was rushed to the Georgetown Public Hospital, where he was pronounced dead by a doctor while receiving treatment. His body is now at the hospital’s mortuary awaiting a post-mortem examination.
Meanwhile, Cameron’s wife, Samantha Castello, told Stabroek News that Hendricks threatened that there would be a “horror movie” prior to the murder. She said that her husband attended a party at Russell Street, Charlestown, on October 16. She said that he had been video recording the entire party. He then posted the video on his social media pages. Hendricks’ cousin, who also lives next door, asked Cameron for the video of the party on the following day. She said that during this time, another video surfaced with Hendricks and his girlfriend. She said that her husband did not know anything about that video.
However, Hendricks overheard his cousin and Cameron talking about a video and he assumed it was the video of himself and the woman. She said that the man never confronted her husband about the video. However, on the same day Hendricks told her that there will be a horror movie. She did not know what he had meant. “I didn’t know the horror movie would’ve been yesterday. I was on the verandah yesterday about five something, and all I hear Rasta Man seh, “Kevin what I do you mek you jooking me up? Kevin me and you ain’t got no story boy! Kevin what I do you?” Castello recalled.
She said that she ran downstairs to where the two men were standing and she saw that her husband had already been stabbed multiple times. Castello was weeping when she explained that her husband was attacked near his stand outside their home.
When she went to the scene her husband was being held up by a relative, who witnessed what happened. She said that she tried to comfort him. Castello informed that his last words to her were “Shorty, Kevin f### me up! He jook me up. He jook me up bad!” He was placed in a car along with a relative and taken to the hospital. She then went to the Ruimveldt Police Station to make a report.
According to the relative, Cameron became unresponsive when he was placed in a wheel chair after arriving at the hospital. She said that she isn’t sure what happened when he was wheeled into the hospital building but a doctor later returned to them and told them that the man had succumbed. The family said that Cameron was stabbed in his chest and that he also had a wound to his face. He had been bleeding profusely as a result.
Family members said that Hendricks ran off before he started walking in the northern direction of the road after he dealt Cameron the stabs. During this time the family was trying to get help for Cameron. They noted that no one tried to stop Hendricks. The family added that the man lived next door to Hendricks for four years. The family said that the pair had the usual neighbour quarrels but they never became violent to each other. They said that Cameron was killed over a video he had no knowledge about and he was never confronted by Hendricks about the video.
The police issued a wanted bulletin for Hendricks yesterday afternoon. Anyone with information that may lead to the arrest of Hendricks, of last known address, Lyng Street, Charlestown, is asked to contact the police on telephone numbers 672-1390, 227-0968, 226-6978, 225-8196, 911 or the nearest police station.
