‘Drug addict’ teen butchers stepdad
– Caught hiding under culvert by construction workers
By Romila Boodram
Claiming that he was not feeling well, a 16-year-old boy took a day off from his
The house in which 70-year-old Eustace Williams (inset) was killed.
job at a wash bay yesterday, sneaked his way into his stepfather’s residence at Lot 469 Crane, West Coast Demerara (WCD), and slaughtered the 70-year-old man in his sleep.
While still armed with the murder weapon—a cutlass and covered in blood— the teen scaled a fence in his bid to escape, but was eventually captured by construction workers – hiding under a culvert, a street from where he butchered his victim.
Eustace Williams, also called Patrick, a security guard, was attacked sometime around 10:30 hrs in the bedroom of his two-storey home. His body was found in the kitchen with multiple chop wounds to his back, head, arms and feet. From all indications, the victim had tried to flee from his attacker.
During his murderous rampage, the teen sustained a chop wound to his foot and was taken to the hospital for treatment.
According to police sources, the young man claimed that he went to his stepfather’s home to collect a computer and the man chopped him, forcing him to defend himself.
But the cops are not buying his story. They believe that the 16-year-old incidentally wounded himself while viciously butchering the elderly man.
Residents in front the victim’s home yesterday.
It is suspected that Williams was killed after he asked the suspect to move from his home about six weeks ago, for stealing and smoking drugs.
Investigators believe that it might have been the teen’s way of getting back at the pensioner for evicting him.
Kaieteur News was told that the man and the suspect’s mother had been living together for the past several years. The woman is currently working in Cayenne. Whenever she is not in the country, the victim and the teen would be in the home.
However, the man had been living at the property alone since he asked the teen to move out.
At the scene yesterday, construction workers said that they heard screaming coming from the house and then noticed the young man at the side of the premises covered in blood. They suspected that something was wrong, since the teen had been “thrown out”.
“This lil boy nah live there, so we suspect something wrong and when he see dem workers, he start run, and some ah we went to other neighbours to call the police, and some ah them workers run behind he and catch he,” one construction worker explained.
He said that the suspect was found hiding in a bushy area under a culvert, not far from his step-father’s home. The teen was then handed over to the police.
A female neighbour said that while the villagers were running after the teen, a policeman who lives in the village went into the pensioner’s home and then came out and informed everyone that Williams had been murdered.
“He butchered that man like an animal. His head alone had like eight chop wounds and it deh like when u chopping beef,” the woman related.
She explained that the teen was wayward. He stole items and sold it to people and smoked drugs. She said when the pensioner couldn’t take it anymore, he went to a policeman living not far from him, and asked the officer to ask the teen to move.
“He tiefing out things from the man house and selling dem. When the police went over to talk to he (teen), he picked up his bag and walked out,” the resident said—this was approximately six weeks ago. She explained that he had immediately left the village, but returned the same night and asked a neighbour if he could stay there for a few nights until he find a place.
“The neighbour sorry for he and keep he and they find a job for he at a wash bay, but then he gone and thief the man (neighbour) phone and he get put out,” the resident said.
She added that since he was thrown out of the neighbour’s home he was not seen in the village until two weeks ago.
“Dem boys seh dey see he with a sharp cutlass, and two days ago he pass and look into he stepfather house and he smiling, and then he left,” the neighbour said.
He was not seen again until yesterday, after murdering the pensioner.
Meanwhile, Vanessa Greene, the victim’s daughter from a previous relationship, said that she was informed that her father had been murdered by his stepson. The woman does not know much about her father’s current family. She said that she last saw her father about three months ago when he went to the market to visit her.
The teen is in custody at the La Grange Police Station.