Crime in Guyana: 24-year-old stabbed to death after friends get into a fight
A 24-year-old man was stabbed to death in the town of Bartica in Guyana on Sunday afternoon.
Tuesday, 10th May 2022
The victim has been identified as Alston Seon, a 24-year-old Miner from the same town.
According to the Police, the deceased (Seon) and four others (a friend and three Venezuelan women) were at the corner of 3rd Street and 3rd Avenue, Bartica, drinking beers when the suspect approached Seon's friend and began threatening him, saying that he was going to "buss his throat".
Seon intervened and told the suspect to desist from what he was doing. The suspect then turned his attention on Sean, and he drew a knife from the waist of his pants and dealt Seon a stab to the right side chest.
He fell to the ground and was picked up by his friend and taken to the Bartica Public Hospital, where he succumbed. The body was checked, and a single wound was seen in the centre of his right side chest. The deceased has been taken to the hospital's mortuary for PME.At around 08:30 hrs on Monday, Doctor Nehaul Singh performed a Post Mortem with dissection on the body and, upon completion, gave the cause of death as a stab wound to the heart.
The deceased body was identified by his brother and handed over to the relatives for burial. The suspect was arrested and is presently in custody, assisting with the ongoing investigation.
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