A 12-year-old student of Dolphin Secondary School died on Tuesday after being stabbed by a friend at Cummings Park, ‘E’ Field, Sophia, Georgetown.
Dead is Kareem Durant of Lot 1338 Cummings Park, ‘E’ Field, Sophia. The 11-year-old suspect has been arrested.
Inquiries revealed that Durant and the suspect were friends who would usually play together in the community. On Tuesday night, the suspect was sitting on a pile of PVC pipes which are stored on the parapet at the side of his home, when the victim went up to him and pushed him off of the pipes, which caused him to fall to the ground. The suspect then got up and ran inside his home and informed his older brother, who then approached the victim calling him in the presence of the suspect and enquired about the issue they had earlier.
An argument ensued and the victim left and returned in the company of another male who was armed with a pair of scissors, approached the older brother and stabbed him in the lower back. The suspect saw what happened, pulled a knife from his waist and stabbed the victim in the chest.
Durant ran and collapsed on the parapet in front of his home. He was picked up by his older brother and rushed to George-town Public Hospital (GPH) where he was pronounced dead on arrival.
Investigators attended the scene and recovered from a trench in the vicinity of the scene, one brown-handle knife which is alleged to be the murder weapon. The pair of scissors was also recovered at the scene.
The suspect was arrested and taken to the Turkeyen police station in the company of his father. Meanwhile, the body of the deceased is at the hospital mortuary awaiting a post-mortem examination.
The deceased’s sister, Princess Griffith, told the Stabroek News that she was at home when she received a call from her mother informing her that someone had stabbed her brother. Griffith related that she ran outside and saw her brother lying on the roadway two houses away from theirs. She eventually stopped a truck and rushed her brother to the GPH where he was pronounced dead on arrival. She added that she does not know what happened but heard her brother was stabbed by his friend.
A resident told Stabroek News that a couple of weeks before the incident, he and his brother had to have some youths, including Durant and the suspect, removed from the corner since they would gang up and misbehave, and even fight with each other. He said Durant would often be bullied by the suspect.
