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Mentally-ill man may have killed sleeping vagrants – police

Aug 26, 2008 News

By Michael Jordan

Police are trying to locate a mentally-ill man who they believe clubbed two sleeping vagrants to death within the space of three days.
One of the victims has been identified as 25-year-old Alecia Roberts, who was slain in Camp Street last week Wednesday.
The other victim is 39-year-old ex-soldier Kamow Adamale, who was found dead at the corner of America and Longden Streets at around 02:00 hrs last Friday.
Kaieteur News was told that the suspect is often seen with a wooden club in his hand.
Police have received reports that Alecia Roberts, who was of unsound mind, was sleeping on a bench on  Camp Street on Wednesday night when the mentally-ill man walked up to her and struck her in the head.
Roberts and her twin sister were familiar sights around the city, particularly in the vicinity of the Demico bus park. They were both violent, and would habitually attack passersby.
The young woman’s death is eerily similar to that of the other victim.
According to police, Kamow Adamale, called ‘Soldier Man’, was lying on a stall near the corner of America and Longden Streets, at around 01:30 hrs on Friday, when a man struck him in the head with a piece of wood.
Adamale was found lying on the pavement in a pool of blood with a wound at the back of his head.
He was picked up and taken to the Georgetown Public Hospital, where he was pronounced dead on arrival.
A source close to the scene reported hearing three sounds that suggested that someone was being struck with a piece of wood.
When the source looked in the direction where the sounds came from, Adamale was seen lying motionless on the ground.
A brother of the victim told Kaieteur News that he saw his sibling at around 01:30 hrs on Friday outside of Bourda Market, where the brother has a ‘bush medicine’ stall.
According to the brother, Adamale was carrying some ‘bush medicine’, which he offered to sell. The brother said that Adamale then indicated that he was going by the Stabroek Market.
At around 02:00 hrs, a group of police ranks visited the brother and informed him that his brother was dead.
The brother visited the scene and identified the body.
According to the victim’s sibling, Adamale left the Guyana Defence Force several years ago and earned a living by working in the interior and selling herbal potions.
However, he also picked up a drug habit and began roaming the streets.
The murders of Adamale and the mentally-ill woman come at a time when the Ministry of Health, Ministry of Human Services, and the Mayor and City Council have announced their intention of removing vagrants from the streets and treating those who are mentally ill.
The population of the city’s homeless and mentally ill has grown to alarming numbers over the years.
Some of these vagrants attack passersby, while others are themselves beaten by gangs of young men.

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