Latest update December 19th, 2024 3:22 AM
Slain teen laid to rest as suspect remains in custody
Rayaad Khan
Relatives and friends of Rayaad Khan paid their last respects on Saturday to the 17-year-old lad who was knifed to death in Diamond New Scheme on the East Bank Demerara.
Khan was laid to rest according to Muslim rites in the Golden Grove, East Bank Demerara cemetery, following a post mortem examination, which established that he succumbed to shock and haemorrhage due to a stab wound.
Meanwhile, the 18-year-old who allegedly stabbed Khan is still in custody. However, police have released his cousin and a young woman whom they had arrested shortly after Khan was slain.
Charges are likely this week.
Police have received conflicting reports about which youth started the fracas that ended in Khan’s death.
A brief police release stated that Khan and another man were involved in an altercation after taunting each other at around 19:30 hrs on Thursday. Khan was subsequently stabbed to his stomach with a knife.
He was pronounced dead on arrival at the Diamond Diagnostic Centre, while the suspect was arrested.
Kaieteur News understands that the 18-year-old suspect told detectives that he stabbed Khan after the 17-year-old attacked him.
However, the victim’s father said that a cousin who was with his son alleged that some youths grabbed his son while one of them stabbed him.
The dispute started on Wednesday and is said to have stemmed from a previous argument over a girl.
Investigators are also trying to ascertain if there is a link between Khan’s death and an incident in which a group of unidentified men fired shots at the suspect’s home.
The shots were reportedly discharged by the occupants of a vehicle some 30 minutes after Khan was slain. Some of the windows of the home and a glass case were shattered but no one was injured.
The shooting had aroused some suspicions on the part of the police.
Deputy Commissioner of Police (Law Enforcement) Seelall Persaud, disclosed that detectives searched the Golden Grove, East Bank Demerara home of the victim’s father Azeem Khan, and also swabbed his hands for traces of gunpowder residue.
Mr. Khan owns a licenced firearm.
However, Kaieteur News was told that the bullets used in Mr. Khan’s firearm are not of the same caliber as the shells that were found at the scene.
Mr. Khan has denied any involvement in the shooting incident and suggested that persons linked to the main suspect committed the act to make police focus on his family.
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