The police in Suriname are on the hunt for a 48-year-old Guyanese man who allegedly stabbed and killed his wife during an argument on Sunday morning.
Dead is Lisa Charran, 32, who is also from Guyana.
The Waterkant news agency identified the suspect as Dani J. He is yet to be apprehended.
The stabbing took place in Koendjbihariweg, New Amsterdam, Suriname.
According to a Waterkant news agency report, a police report said that preliminary investigations revealed that Charran’s 10-year-old daughter was watching television with her sister and brother when she heard her mother screaming.
“She went to the screams and on that occasion she saw how her stepfather Dani J. inflicted several stab wounds on her mother with a sharp object,” the report said.
The suspect subsequently fled the scene.
The report noted that shortly before the incident, the couple had an altercation when the owner of the house intervened and settled the argument. “The owner then went to the store and upon his return he was confronted with the sad case,” the Waterkant news report said.
The police were summoned and upon their arrival at the scene, they saw Charran’s body lying on the floor in the garage. There was a sharp object in her right hand.
“Lisa’s lifeless body has been (taken) by the police for an autopsy on behalf of the Public Prosecution Service. The arrest of the fugitive suspect is being worked on,” the report said.
