Latest update April 18th, 2025 8:12 AM
Berbician stabbed to death
By Melissa Johnson
NEW AMSTERDAM, BERBICE – Twenty-eight-year-old Anthony Samaroo, of Angoy’s Avenue, was stabbed to death on Wednesday night, not far from his home.
The suspected killers, who have been identified as three brothers from the said Angoy’s Avenue area, are on the run.
The victim’s mother, Meena Samaroo, explained that there was a problem a few weeks ago, and that incident sparked the stabbing. “Some people went into (the late) lawyer Trim’s house and steal a lighting plant. Anthony and his brother gave the Police the information about who get the lighting plant and who steal it and so.
“Yesterday, that is what started it. They tell my sons that they playing Police ‘cochore’ and they lay wait in a track that he normally walk and they stab he up with something like a lance, or spear, or something like that.”
According to her, the type of weapon is not yet known, “The doctor said it is a strange weapon. He get 12 stabs.”
At the time of the incident, she was at home preparing for work. “When I get the message I go across and I see his friends — some boys over the dam — lifting him up, going to a taxi with him to the hospital.”
She said that when she arrived at the New Amsterdam Hospital, she was told that he was bleeding internally. “They say his lungs damaged. They try to save his life but he died ten pass ten last night (Wednesday). My little son, Paul, was also beaten by the men. He get injured in the eye. Well, he get treatment for it and he deh home.”
According to the Police, Anthony Samaroo, of Levi’s Dam in Angoy’s Avenue, was wounded in the left abdomen and left lower back. The suspects are said to be three brothers who accused the two Samaroo brothers of being Police informers.
The suspected killers are 22, 28 and 35 years old and reside at Angoy’s Avenue in New Amsterdam, the Police added.
According to the Police source, the victim and his 17-year-old brother had a misunderstanding with the suspects. The 17-year-old was threatened, and he told his brother, the now dead Anthony Samaroo.
The Police official said that the two Samaroo brothers went to the home of the three suspects and a fracas ensued. The older Samaroo was wounded and subsequently taken to the New Amsterdam Hospital, where he died at 22:00 hours on Wednesday.
Police are searching for the men, and the investigation is continuing.
The official indicated that the five men were no strangers to Police.
In August 2007, Kaieteur News published a report in which Anthony Samaroo was a patient at the New Amsterdam Hospital after he was reportedly shot on the left side of the head, the inner part of the left elbow, and the left thigh.
Back then, a Police release had stated that wanted man 30-year-old Ramdan Samaroo, of Angoy’s Avenue, New Amsterdam, was shot and injured by the Police. Samaroo and another man, David Williams, also of Angoy’s Avenue, were charged with robbery under arms committed on William Bahadur during July, 2007.
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