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Guyanese couple in murder/suicide
A heated argument between a Guyanese escalated into a murder/suicide on Saturday at St. Maarten.
SMN News identified the female as Cheryl Withrite, 52, a Burger King employee.
Police Spokesman Richard Henson said police found the woman dead inside her apartment above Tire Max, which is across from Flourish Supermarket, while the man was found seriously injured at the back of his apartment.
Cheryl Withrite
Henson said the man jumped through the window and he was found with a large open wound on his stomach while his throat was slashed. Henson further explained that when police found the man he was still alive and was transported to the St. Maarten Medical Center where he died shortly after.
Residents on AT Illidge Road identified the killer and now dead man as Cleon Anthony Bourne 54, called ‘Tall Boy’ also of Guyana and former employee of Divi Little Bay.
Cleon Bourne is originally from La Grange West Bank Demerara, Guyana. Bourne is the father of one child.
Contrary to what was reported in SMN News Withrite does not have any children. Both of the parents are said to be deceased.
Meanwhile in Guyana, an aunt of the woman Minerva Withrite-Smith who resides at Vreed- En- Hoop, WCD told Kaieteur News that it was friend who resides in St Maarten who broke the news to relatives in Guyana.
Kaieteur News was told that the friend called sometime before lunchtime on Sunday.
“The friend called her sister and told her that she was killed and Bourne had committed suicide” the aunt stated.
Withrite-Smith told this publication that she was told that it was her niece’s neighbour’s in St Maarten who called the police after the heard the couple arguing and fighting.
The woman said she was told that after the police arrived at the home, they were forced to kick the door down.
The aunt said she was told that her niece had a gaping wound to the neck. This publication was told by the aunt that Bourne also had a wound to the neck and he jumped through a window. He died shortly after at a hospital in St Marteen .
The aunt could not say what caused the argument. She told Kaieteur News that the two had been living in a common-law relationship for years. The woman said her niece lived in St Maarten for over 15 years and would normally come to Guyana every October. Withrite-Smith said that she contacted the dead man’s mother.
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