Ranks from the Police Criminal Investigation Department (CID) are investigating the death of a young construction worker who yesterday succumbed while at the Infectious Diseases Hospital after having been stabbed by his stepfather.
Nineteen-year-old Isaiah Edwards, a construction worker of East La Penitence Squatting Area, Georgetown, succumbed while at the Hospital at Liliendaal, East Coast Demerara. It is unclear whether the young man is a COVID-19 fatality or he succumbed to injuries sustained following the stabbing.
The police last night put out a wanted bulletin for Shawn Bobb, 30, in connection with the murder. His last known address is the East La Penitence Squatting Area. Anyone with information that may lead to the arrest of Bobb is asked to contact the police on telephone numbers 227-2603, 226-6978, 226-6221, 219-3252, 227-1149, 225-8196, 268-2328, 268-2298/2222, 226-7065, 911 or the nearest police station.