Two persons have been arrested in connection with the murder of Alex Williams, who was fatally chopped during the wee hours of Sunday morning along the Number Two Village, East Canje Berbice Public Road.
However, according to a police source, investigators are still hunting for the main suspect, who dealt Williams the fatal chop injuries.
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 the three men after an argument with them.
Stabroek News was told that he was reportedly cuffed to his face several times after which he ventured home then returned to the bar, where he was chopped multiple times.
His father, Mohamed Ishmael, 42, had told this publication 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 that he was “going back for them.” The father agreed to accompany his son.
After arriving at the bar, the father said he noticed one of the suspects exiting the bar with two bottles in his hands and moving towards his son. He said he tried to defuse the situation and told his son to go home but it was then that one of his son’s assailants emerged with two sealed beer bottles, which he threw at Williams’ 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,” the man recalled.
According to the father, he then took his shirt and wrapped it around his son’s wound.
The youth lost consciousness during the trip to the New Amsterdam Hospital’s Emergency Unit and five minutes after they arrived he was informed that his son had succumbed.
