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Man stabbed to death on Stabroek Square

Feb 15, 2010 News


– row over stolen cell phone may have triggered killing

A stolen cell phone may have been the motive behind the murder on Saturday night of 24- year old Sophia resident, Gregory Stewart, called “Micey-Man”.
Gregory Stewart was stabbed twice in the abdomen in the vicinity of the South Georgetown Bus Park, at around 21:30hrs, allegedly by an acquaintance who had accused him of stealing a cell phone.
He succumbed yesterday morning at the Georgetown Hospital shortly after undergoing surgery.
The alleged killer fled the scene and is still at large.
Stewart’s mother, Collette Mc Kenzie said that she was a short distance away from her son when the incident happened.

The woman explained that a friend of her son, who she described as a troublemaker, had accused him of stealing a cell phone sometime last week.
The woman said that the friend had misplaced his mobile phone while sleeping at Stewart’s home in Sophia.
She said that her son had strongly denied stealing the phone, but the friend was adamant that Stewart was the culprit.
Mc Kenzie said that on Wednesday, she saw her son’s friend and struck up a conversation.
She said that she asked the friend to make peace and that it was not her son who stole the phone.
However, the suspect did not heed the woman’s advice and rebuffed it by saying that he “would seek his own revenge since he was not afraid of her son”.
That threat prompted the woman to speak to the suspect’s mother, who promised to caution her son.
Mc Kenzie alleged that her son and the suspect had yet another confrontation on Saturday night at around 20:30hrs.
She again complained to the suspect’s mother.
Mc Kenzie said that she saw the suspect go to a police patrol and speak to the driver, but the rank did not exit the vehicle.
Minutes later Stewart told her that he was going “around the corner” to get something and would return shortly.
The woman said that within minutes she saw her son running as if someone was chasing him.
“I just saw him running and I did not see who was behind him,” Mc Kenzie said.
According to the distraught mother, her youngest son ran after his brother, who collapsed in front of Ashmins Store on High Street.

The woman said that her younger son returned to tell her that someone had killed Stewart.
“He run back and seh, ‘mommy they kill meh brother, they stab he up’.”
Not wasting any time, Mc Kenzie caught a taxi and drove around to Ashmins where she found Stewart lying on the ground.
He was rushed to the Georgetown Public Hospital where he underwent emergency surgery.
After spending almost six hours in the operating theater, Stewart succumbed just 15 minutes after the surgery was completed.
The woman says she wants the police to do a full investigation since her son did not deserve to die like that.
She described her son as someone who was quiet, loving and very jovial. Stewart leaves to mourn two young children, brothers, sisters and his parents.

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