Latest update April 17th, 2025 9:50 AM
Man stabs friend over $1500
A business deal between two Diamond, East Bank Demerara friends on Saturday
The injured man at GPHC
turned sour and resulted in one nursing a stab wound at the hospital while the assailant is on the run.
Quincy Roberts, 26, of 118 Diamond, East Bank Demerara, was stabbed to his abdomen and is currently at the Georgetown Public Hospital Corporation (GPHC).
Yesterday, Roberts told this publication that he had lent his friend a bicycle and a cellular phone since last year but never received it back. He said he would normally confront his friend on numerous occasions and would enquire about his items but according to the 26-year-old, “he would never answer me.”
“Last week, he gave me a cell phone to sell. He told me to sell it for $7000 and I should take $4000 and give him $3000.”
Roberts said that he gave his friend $1500 in advance and collected the phone. “I eventually sold the phone but the person who bought it was in some problems so he did not give me the money.”
Kaieteur News understands that Roberts’ attacker confronted him last night at a popular liming spot, 99 Avenue, in Diamond, where he and his friends were liming and demanded his money.
“I told him that the man did not pay me and he start behave stupid because he did not want wait for he money so I told him that I will pay him when he return my phone and bicycle and he get mad and pull out the knife and stabbed me.”
Roberts was rushed to the hospital by friends. Police are trying to locate the assailant.
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