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Another murder rocks Goed Fortuin
– Second in three days
By Rustom Seegopaul
Another murder has rocked the West Bank Demerara community of Goed Fortuin, the second in three days.
Following Monday’s brutal slaying of 25-year-old Nafeeza Khan, in a domestic dispute, Kenneth Allen, 27, of Goed Fortuin Squatting Area, was stabbed to death by a man said to be a drug addict, who frequents the area, during an altercation that saw Allen playing the role of a peacemaker.
Khan lived a mere four doors from where the latest killing occurred.
At about 21:30 hours on Wednesday, residents said that Kenneth Allen was stabbed about his body by a man identified as Ken, and who was said to be of unsound mind.
Dead: Kenneth Allen
Claiming to have seen the entire incident, one resident said that Allen was sitting on the culvert of a bridge ‘having a few drinks’ with a friend, identified only as Anand, who had only recently returned from Venezuela.
The eyewitness said that four men, Ken among them, approached Anand and began to ‘make trouble’ with him. Shortly after this, it has been reported, a small fight began between Anand and the four other men.
At this point, Allen stepped in and asked the four men to desist from bullying Anand, who was described as a small built man, according to the eyewitness.
Allen apparently continued to tell the four men that they should not hit Anand, and at this point,
‘Ken’ reportedly moved away from Anand and chucked Allen.
The eyewitness said that Allen pushed ‘Ken’ in return, and a scuffle ensued.
Another eyewitness said that she saw ‘Ken’ making a ‘stabbing motion’ in Allen’s direction.
They said they heard Allen cry out, “Boy, rest yuh self, yuh done spillin’ meh blood.”
But the fight continued, moving from the bridge, down the street and ending up at a neighbour’s fence. Allen was thrown to the ground and, according to the eyewitness, was stabbed repeatedly as he lay on the ground.
Members of Allen’s family, who apparently saw the entire altercation from the veranda of a nearby house, rushed downstairs to Allen’s assistance. One of the dead man’s aunts said that when she got to him, her nephew was gasping for breath and bleeding profusely.
She said she ran back into the house to get some money and summon a taxi to take her wounded relative to the West Demerara Regional Hospital, but when she returned to his side, just minutes later, he had stopped breathing.
Some 20 minutes later, the taxi arrived, and Allen was taken to the hospital. The ambulance, which was also summoned, arrived after Allen had already been taken to the hospital, neighbours said.
At the hospital the man was pronounced dead. He had sustained stab wounds to his shoulders and lower back and sustained punctured lungs.
In the wake of the stabbing the assailant reportedly fled the community, something that the residents say he does whenever he ‘misbehaves’. They added that one place of refuge is a house in Mocha, East Bank Demerara.
Allen’s reputed wife, Bhagwandai Persaud, told this newspaper that while she is saddened by her husband’s death, there was not much she could do. “I can’t do nothing. De police gah fuh do dem job and find de man,” said Persaud.
She added that she had no idea how she would be able to explain to her two-month-old daughter that her father had died.
Speaking with the police at La Grange Station, Kaieteur News was informed that the police had not ‘detained anyone’ despite reports from Ken’s family that the police picked him up early yesterday morning.
But some residents said that the assailant’s family is lying. “He is in Mocha, where he will lie low until the matter has blown never.”
In the wake of the killing, the police came to Allen’s family and took statements. They also said that Anand is in police custody and is helping them with their investigations.
Allen was employed as a carpenter and as a mason. He is survived by a reputed wife of six years, and two children, the two-month-old and a five-year-old.
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