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Murder of Internet café owner…Wounded suspect turns self in
By Latoya Giles
A prime suspect in the murder of internet café owner Desmond Davis turned himself in to the police, yesterday, even as an eyewitness to Monday night’s altercation claimed that the slain man was the aggressor.
The suspect, who is from a squatting community behind Shirley Field-Ridley Square, turned up at the East La Penitence Police Station with his attorney yesterday.
Dead: Desmond Davis
He was then taken to the East Ruimveldt Outpost, where he was detained.
Police confirmed that the man sustained chops on the head, fingers and hands, which he alleged were inflicted by Davis during their altercation on Monday night.
A source said that the suspect had made at least two pervious reports to police about Davis. One was made on June 24, 2008 at the East Ruimveldt Police Outpost.
The man reportedly claimed that Davis had struck him with a gun.
It is still unclear what caused the dispute, although there are reports that it involved a financial transaction.
A woman who claimed to have witnessed Monday night’s altercation said that the suspect was in the vicinity of the Mandela Avenue well when Davis, who was armed with a cutlass, approached him.
A fight broke out between the two men and Davis chopped the suspect.
The eyewitness said that after wounding the suspect, Davis attempted to ride away on his motorcycle. However, the injured man allegedly pursued Davis with a broken bottle and stabbed the internet café owner.
“That boy (Davis) did looking for he death. I tell he stop the fighting and he continue,” the woman said.
It is alleged that after the incident occurred, the suspect, apparently unaware that Davis had died, went to the East Ruimveldt Police Outpost to report that Davis had attacked him.
Kaieteur News was told that he then went to the Georgetown Public Hospital Corporation for treatment but left after learning that Davis had died.
However, when Kaieteur News visited Davis’s home, his reputed wife, Talita Clarke, denied that her spouse was the aggressor.
The woman admitted that she knew that the two “had problems” but never thought that it would end in death.
Clarke said that she became aware that something had happened to her reputed husband after she received a phone call telling her to go the hospital.
When she arrived, she was informed that her husband had died.
Davis, called ‘Lion’, was found lying in a pool of blood in the alleyway with stab wounds to his abdomen and right arm at around 19:20 hrs on Monday.
The discovery was made by an 11-year-old boy from the neighbourhood, who happened to be walking through the alleyway.
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