A man is now dead after his throat was slit in a midday fight on Saturday at New Amsterdam.
The deceased is Jermaine Elias, also known as ‘Deportee,’ 39, of Number 43 Stanleytown, New Amsterdam.
According to eyewitnesses, following the fight, the man who slit Elias’ throat rode his bicycle to the New Amsterdam Police Station, located nearby, and turned himself into custody.
One eyewitness, Kevin Chesney, 26, who was at a Superbet shop, located across from the spot where the fight occurred along Main Road, said Elias had been at the betting shop at the time and ended up in an argument with his assailant, who was passing by on a bicycle.
Chesney said, another patron at the shop attempted to part the fight but Elias picked up a mop stick, which he used to assault his opponent.
“The person who get killed like he didn’t want to finish and he pick up the mop stick and start firing lash on the other guy and then the man take a out a grass knife from the bag and start fire back at he and one a the fire catch he [Elias’] neck and that’s when he collapsed,” Chesney recounted.
According to the eyewitness, after Elias’ throat was slit, he fell to the ground and became unconscious. It was during this time that the other man rode to the station and turned himself over to the police.
Meanwhile, Elias’ brother, Keon Elias, said, that he was work at a wash bay a few villages away when he received the news of the altercation around 14:00 hrs yesterday.
According to the brother, his family informed that Jermaine was pronounced dead on arrival at the New Amsterdam Public Hospital. “We hear he bleed out on the road”, the younger brother related.
The brother noted that Jermaine visited the Superbet shop every day. Chesney confirmed this, noting that he would also often get into arguments. “He does always talk thing and get into it with people… I don’t bother with him but he always talking thing,” the man said.
