-police were probing domestic violence complaint
A Mahaicony man died on Monday after he allegedly set a house on fire following a domestic dispute with his wife during which she was reportedly assaulted.
The deceased, Julius Inniss also known as `Storme’, 56, a part-time electrician, and his wife, Shellon Inniss, 46, both resided at Lot 18 Catherine, Mahaicony.
Stabroek News was told that Julius started the fire just around 3 pm while having barricaded himself in the house, which belongs to his wife, resulting in his death.
According to information gathered, Shellon visited the Mahaicony Police Station on Monday to report that her husband had assaulted her during a domestic dispute, resulting in ranks taking her to the Mahaicony Hospital for medical attention.
She was subsequently escorted back to her residence where after noticing the police with Shellon, Julius ran into the house and barricaded himself.
While the police made attempts to de-escalate the situation, smoke was seen emanating from one side of the building and Julius was noticed at the window with a bottle setting the building on fire.
Shellon yesterday said that after arriving at home, “the officer said somebody run upstairs and he light this part of the house and we see the little smoke and I didn’t believe but then the police start call he and he said ‘who is that?’ and them say is police and he say ‘wah happen? Wah y’all want?’ and he collect couple of the window pane and he started to light.”
According to the woman, the fire then quickly spread throughout the wooden structure destroying everything in its path. “He light the fire and we find him right there, he had something in a bottle, he had some of the poison bottle that he spray the yard, he had them on the ground open up.”
Shellon and Julius would have celebrated their twentieth anniversary yesterday and have a 14-year-old daughter together.
“I mean thank God we weren’t in there, we alive, but a life still gone. I tried, he always feel I’m against him, I try, I reach out, I ain’t getting help from nobody, anybody I feel comfortable with I reach out to them and they make it like if is me make he behaving so but when I married him he was not like this… This is not the life I wanted for me or my children them.”
She said, she and the deceased would often argue, “we try, we try… When I met my husband I had me house, I had me house… He is not only my husband he was my best friend, we sit, we talk, we laugh everything, you know we get we lil thing.”
“My husband have his own problem and because of that he has a lot of anger and often time we would argue…”, she said.
Shellon further noted, that she was working to build a shop at the location so as to develop another source of income to be able to take care of their daughter.
“He was supposed to help me, and every day is today, tomorrow, today, tomorrow and I look for somebody to finish the shop and I don’t know if he was annoyed with it but he went out and drink and he came up and he start an argument, he had a knife…”
The woman stated that she would often keep their issues under wraps and put on a bright face.
