An 18-year-old yesterday succumbed at the New Amsterdam Public Hospital to injuries sustained during a chopping incident at Number 77 Village, Corentyne on Monday morning.
Dead is Keon Byass, 18, of 48 Dukestown, Upper Corentyne. One of the suspects turned himself in to the police at the Spsringlands station yesterday.
The deceased’s aunt, Bridget Byass, 48, last evening explained that on Monday Keon left home around 8.30 am to go to a tailor at Number 77 Village, Corentyne.
While he was returning home he was reportedly attacked by two teenaged brothers armed with cutlasses. “He just drop off the jeans and he coming back home and these two boys wait for he and they ambush he”, she said.
Byass sustained injuries to his back and left arm. According to the woman, she was later told that he made several attempts to escape during the attack. “They just run and start to chop him with cutlasses. He run a little way in the street trying to reach home and he fall down”, she said.
Byass succumbed at the New Amsterdam Public Hospital just before 9 am to the injuries he sustained.
The aunt said that the brothers had attacked the teenager twice in the past and during both instances he sustained injuries. During the first attack some two years ago, she said he sustained an injury to his wrist which stopped him from carrying out strenuous tasks.
She said that both matters were reported to the police but to their knowledge no arrest was made.
She further explained that her nephew had an old grievance with the two brothers who are from the same village. “Every time they see him they have a problem. It’s a old grievance from school, he use to live with his mother, and he came and live with us and the very first time they trouble him he was already living with me and he said it was a school days thing.”
