A 21-year-old man succumbed on Monday, days after he was brutally stabbed while liming at a bar in Mon Repos, East Coast Demerara (ECD) and his family is calling for justice amidst fears that his attacker has left the country.
Dead is Krishna Maniram, called ‘Boy,’ of Lot 190 Bladen Hall, ECD, who was an employee of National Hardware.
The dead man’s father, Brama Maniram yesterday told Stabroek News that the stabbing occurred around 22.30 hrs last Friday at S&S bar. His son succumbed sometime on Monday.
Brama said he learnt that Krishna and his friends had ventured to the bar after work on Friday to hang out since the following day was a public holiday and they didn’t have to work.
Upon arrival there, Brama said, the suspect, known by the alias ‘Killa,’ was already in the bar. “I heard that they seh that a guy in the bar mek a problem with him [Krishna] and I don’t know, like the boy like he did really need a problem with somebody but me son and the other boys nah mek no problem with this fella….So like he go to me son and I don’t know wah argument between them two and he buss one bottle and bore me son,” he explained.
Not satisfied, the youth’s assailant then whipped out a knife and allegedly stabbed Krishna two more times to his abdomen and throat.
Apparently unaware that he was seriously injured, Krishna tried to chase after his attacker. “The bai [suspect] wah bore he [Krishna] now run out. Suh me son nah know that he get bore, he tek out he belt and run he,” the father related.
During the chase, the suspect reportedly wounded his son again. “He stop at the gate, pull out the knife again and cut he throat,” Brama said.
The grieving father explained that the attack was reported to the police but there has been no update to date on the suspect’s whereabouts.
Brama told this newspaper that he learnt that the suspect has fled to neighbouring Suriname.
Up to yesterday, there had been no official word from the Guyana Police Force about the murder. Stabroek News made several efforts to enquire from the police about the case but there was no feedback up to yesterday afternoon.
“I don’t know if the police them doing their job or what. I don’t know,” Brama said. “We need some justice. Something got to come out of this,” he added.
‘Bleed a lot’
Following the wounding, Krishna was rushed to the Georgetown Public Hospital (GPH) by his friends.
Brama told Stabroek News that although Krishna was bleeding profusely, he was put on a wheelchair for some time before he received medical attention. “Them got he pun a wheelchair bleeding. One ah he friend had to go in and quarrel up, [saying] ‘Watch this man bleeding all the time hay’ before somebody coulda look after he,” he said.
According to Brama, while at the GPH, Krishna was given a COVID test and the result was positive.
Unbeknownst to the family, Brama said, his son was transferred to the Infectious Diseases Hospital at Liliendaal. “I don’t know wah going on with these people them……When I went at the COVID centre Monday afternoon, I talk to the security them and them go up and come down and seh that how nobody nah know what time he passed away. He already deh at the mortuary,” he related.
“Them nah inform nobody. Me daughter went deh [GPH, so by time they left and go back, they already got he in the ambulance carrying he to the COVID centre,” Brama added.
Brama believes that if his son had received immediate medical attention, he may have lived.
