Police are currently investigating the death of 34-year-old labourer, Dellon Waterman, called ‘Puppi’ of Lot 2 (c) Riverview, Ruimveldt, Georgetown, on Wednesday evening.
The suspect, a 22-year-old male, is yet to be apprehended.
Enquiries revealed that around 18.15 hours, Waterman intervened in an assault against his nine-year-old nephew by the suspect along the Riverview Access road and an argument ensued between the two, which escalated into a fight. During the scuffle, the suspect who was armed with a knife, stabbed the victim to the left side of his chest and escaped.
Waterman then went home and collapsed. The police were summoned and the injured man was taken to the Georgetown Public Hospital where he was pronounced dead on arrival. The body was subsequently placed in the hospital’s mortuary to await a post-mortem examination.
Meanwhile the mother of the deceased, Rita Dazel, told Stabroek News that her grandson told her that he was coming from the shop when the suspect hit him on his buttocks. The boy asked him not to do that but the suspect continued to assault him.
It was at this point that her grandson became annoyed and picked up a brick from the ground and threw it on the suspect’s foot. The suspect then responded by hitting the boy in the head.
The grandmother related that her grandson ran to Waterman and told him what had occurred. Waterman then took the boy to the suspect to inquire about what had happened. Dazel said that according to her grandson, the suspect became annoyed and slapped Waterman and an argument then turned into a fight between the two.
Waterman then turned away to return home and the suspect stabbed him in the chest and ran away. Waterman held his chest and ran into the yard calling for her, the grandmother recalled. She said her son spent an hour in the yard before he was taken to the hospital where he died.
Dazel told this newspaper that she wants justice for her dead son. She also said that the suspect is wanted by the police.
The police said that checks were made for the suspect but he was not found.
