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Brothers knife man to death
Twenty-four-year-old Mervin “Jess” Boston was yesterday pronounced dead on arrival at the Georgetown Public Hospital, after he was stabbed more than a dozen times, allegedly by two brothers.
Boston, a resident of 138 King Edward Street, Albouystown, was knifed just three houses away from his home.
Dead: Mervin Boston
According to the dead man’s cousin, Sonia Williams, who witnessed the ordeal, that entire incident stemmed from an earlier confrontation.
She said that on Wednesday afternoon the two men and her cousin had an argument. They were cautioned by neighbours to stop the feud.
Williams said that one of the suspects known as “Carlie” threatened her on Thursday.
She said that the suspect told her that he had broken into the family’s home.
“He see me at Cooper Street and tell me that he break in we house and if he did want kill, is all of us would have died,” Williams said.
The woman said that she believed the suspect because he gave her a detailed description of the interior of the home. He even showed her a hockey stick which would usually be behind the front door.
She said that the suspect slapped her after she started arguing back with him.
Feeling threatened, she immediately went to the Ruimveldt Police Station and made a report, but the duty police officer told her that they didn’t have a vehicle to go to the location.
She explained that the officer told her that she should return around midday.
Williams said that she returned home and cautioned her brother along with her now dead cousin about what the suspect had told her.
The woman said she returned to the police station around 06:00hrs yesterday and again the officers told her that they didn’t have a vehicle. She said she returned home and began her household chores. Williams said she never managed to finish those chores because she heard her brother and Boston in a commotion.
She said that the two suspects walked into the yard and asked her brother and Boston if they wanted to fight.
Sonia Williams, who witnessed the murder
“These two boys walked in we yard and seh they come to fight and they gun shoot up everybody.”
She said her brother and cousin told the suspects that they wanted to fight them hand to hand.
Williams said she shouted to her brother and cousin that the suspects were armed with guns. The woman further explained that although she was urging her brother and cousin not to worry, the suspect’s mother was urging her sons to kill them.
“She shouting telling she sons to kill them. Is blood we want. They always banking people. Kill them”.
Williams said that her brother began fighting with “Carlie” and Boston intervened trying to stop the fight.
“Jess was pulling meh brother away and de two brothers hold on pun Jess and start stabbing he”.
She explained that “Carlie ” held her cousin’s hands behind his back while his brother stabbed him repeatedly.
Williams said even though her cousin fell into a nearby gutter “Carlie” went into the gutter and continued to stab him.
With tears trickling down her face Williams said it was only after she began kicking the suspect in his back, that he stopped stabbing her cousin.
The dead man's relatives at the hospital
Boston was picked up from the gutter and rushed to the hospital by his cousin and neigbhours.
He died while being taken to the hospital and was pronounced dead on arrival.
As relatives of the dead man were comforting each other at the hospital, both suspects walked into the hospital outpost and uplifted medicals certificates.
The two men then proceeded to enter the Accident and Emergency Unit of the hospital.
This sparked a loud outburst by the relatives, who opined that the police were not helping.
An aunt of Boston said that the incident happened so early in the morning and the police didn’t even try to get a statement from them.
It was only after the two suspects’ had arrived at the hospital that a rank from the Criminal Investigation Department attempted to take a statement from the dead man’s cousin.
“If de police had a vehicle “Jess” would have never died, every minute you seeing in de papers that they getting new vehicles and them when they got to go out them aint get none”.
The two brothers, who reside at James Street Albouystown, were subsequently taken into police custody.
Up to press time the two were at the Ruimveldt Police Station.
The dead man leaves to mourn his nine brothers and sisters. His parents are deceased.
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