A brawl between two men at Albouystown, Georgetown, turned tragic on Christmas Day, leaving on dead and the other facing murder charges.
The dead man has been identified only as “Fluffie”.
According to information received, at about 15:00h on Friday, December 25, two men were involved in a heated argument when one of them whipped out a knife and dealt the other several blows to the neck and chest.
The victim reportedly fell to the ground while the suspect attempted to escape but was cornered by public spirited citizens. The injured man was picked up and rushed to the Georgetown Public Hospital where he was pronounced dead on arrival.
The suspect was later handed over to the Police and is expected to be charged on Monday. The Police have since recovered the blood stained knife suspected to be the murder weapon.
Crime Chief Wendell Blanhum when contacted told Guyana Times that Police are continuing their investigations but confirmed that the two men are known “junkies” in the area.
This murder has been added to already 133 that were committed at the end of November 2015, in comparison with 130 at the end of November 2014.
Of the 133 murders, a whopping 53 were as a result of disorderly behavior, 22 were committed during robberies, 20 as a result of domestic issues, 10 were execution style killings, 27 are yet to be determined and one falls under the category of ‘other’.
In addition, the report further revealed that 46 murders were committed in A Division (Georgetown-East Bank Demerara) while 23 were done in F Division (Interior locations); 21 apiece for B (Berbice) and C Divisions (East Coast Demerara) followed by eight each in D Division (West Bank Demerara-East Bank Essequibo) and G Division (Essequibo coast-Islands) and six in E Division (Linden-Kwakwani).
There have been at least five murders for December thus far, with a few days to go before the end of the year.