An East Canje, Berbice bar fight during the wee hours of today has left a 24-year-old dead after he was chopped about his body.
Police are currently hunting for the suspects.
According to information gathered, the deceased, Alex Williams, 24, a mason, of Lot 383 Rampersaud Street, Number Two Village, East Canje, Berbice was at a bar along the main public road when he was attacked by three men after an argument.
He was reportedly cuffed in his face several times after which he ventured home and then returned to the bar where he was chopped multiple times.
His father, Mohamed Ishmael, 42, today told Stabroek News that Williams left home on Saturday evening to purchase beers and cigarettes from the bar.
He said that he was sleeping when his son rushed home sometime before 1 am and informed him that he was “violated on the road and he going back for them if I coming and I tell he `Yes I putting on my clothes’”.
After arriving at the bar, the father said he noticed one of the suspects exiting the bar with two bottles in his hand and moving towards his son, “and I go and stop him (suspect) and I ask he and I say `Man you know Alex and you know me and that is my people them why ya’ll violating for? Wah going on? Wah is the problem?’ And he (the suspect) say he na want hear nothing.”
He said another man was attempting to stop the fight and told his son to go home but it was then that the other suspect came out with two sealed beer bottles which he used to pelt Williams in his face “and when the bottle knock him in he head, a hear the explosion and Alex drop on the ground on his knee and then (another suspect) run out from the shop with a cutlass and dealt Alex several chops and Alex get up to run them and I see the chop on he neck and he skin and I tell he Alex you wounded bad boy let me take you to the hospital, don’t worry about them man this here.”
According to the father, he then took his shirt and wrapped it around his son’s neck on the chop wound.
He then recalled that while transporting his son to the hospital he noticed that he was losing consciousness, “I tell he I say Alex hold it up, hold it up, and a try fa tek he out on the car and put he on the stretcher (but) he was going already.”
The father noted, that five minutes after they arrived at the New Amsterdam Hospital’s Emergency Unit he was informed that his son had succumbed.
As of this afternoon investigators were continuing the hunt for the three suspects who were identified to be known characters.
