By Joseph Allen
The Guyana Police Force is currently probing the killing of a 19-year-old construction worker of Laing Avenue, West Ruimveldt, Georgetown and the burning of a house allegedly in retaliation for his death.
The dead youth has been identified as Dequan Pyle, a construction worker.
Enquiries revealed that at about 6:30 yesterday morning, Pyle woke up and saw his sisters engaged in a fight with some other females from the neighbourhood and upon observing this, attempted to separate them. It is alleged that the male partners of the other females also intervened and one of the males who was armed with a length of wood, dealt Pyle a blow to the back of his head causing him to fall to the ground where he remained motionless.
The attacker then dropped the length of wood and he and others proceeded to pelt bottles and bricks at Pyle’s relatives before escaping.
Pyle was rushed to the hospital where he was pronounced dead on arrival.
A nearby house was subsequently torched. It was said to belong to the suspect in the killing.
The 30-year-old suspect who is on the run, is being sought by the police.
Pyle’s grandmother, Urla Henry, who described her grandson as a very quiet and jovial person related that she was just home when she saw the crowd where the incident had occurred.
When she got closer, she saw her grandson lying on the ground and he did not respond to her call.
“He did not have bruises because they are claiming that he got hit to the back of his head, but by he got the hit he fell down. Probably his head got hit twice because when he fall his head hit the ground. So, I just raise up his head and he was frothing. I keep hollering ‘Dequan, Dequan’ and I wasn’t getting any response.
Henry said she then called for her neighbour to help to carry him to the hospital since the ambulance had not yet arrived.
The elderly woman said that this was not the first time the family had an issue with the group, in fact they would constantly have an issue with them and recently they pelted her house with a number of objects.
“Yes, several times, they come pelting down the place. They does trouble the girl [Dequan’s sister], my granddaughter, call her all kinds of names and I does tell she, ‘Man, don’t answer them.’ … They fight before and is sit down she was sitting eating something, some roti and curry. She does go out on the corner early and buy her roti and curry”, the woman recalled.
