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Man killed helping cops arrest suspect
A 20-year-old Alberttown man was stabbed to death near his home at around 20:30 hrs yesterday while attempting to help a police officer who was trying to arrest another man.
Sule‘ Brian Assanah who would have celebrated his 21st birthday on Wednesday, was slashed to the neck by the suspect, whom police identified as a horse-cart operator.
Dead 20-year-old Sule‘ Brain Assanah
He succumbed shortly after arriving at the Georgetown Public Hospital.
The incident occurred at the corner of Fourth and Light Streets, Alberttown.
Police said that the suspect fled the scene on a bicycle and was still at large at press time. Reports are that a police rank pursued the suspect to the Bourda Market area but had to retreat after the suspect brandished his knife.
This publication was told that earlier in the day, the suspect went to the home of a female acquaintance and threatened to kill her.
It is alleged that yesterday evening, a rank from the Alberttown Police Station received word that the suspect was in the area. However, when the police arrived, he was informed that the man was armed with a knife.
“Somebody give the police word that dis man who went on he bicycle had a long knife so de police ask de man ‘where de knife deh,’ and same time Sule` pass and tell de man ‘why you giving de police a hard time, why you don’t go down to the station,” an eyewitness narrated.
Eyewitnesses said that the suspect then drew a knife and slashed Assanah’s throat in full few of the unarmed police rank.
He then sped away on his bicycle, leaving the injured Assanah lying on road in a pool of blood. Assanah was rushed to the hospital by his mother, Laurine Mingo.
The badly wounded man’s mother and father, Brian Assanah waited anxiously outside the Accident and Emergency Unit until hospital staff broke the news to them.
Ms. Mingo, whose clothes were soaked with her son’s blood, clutched his slippers which she had collected from the scene as she related her last moments with her eldest son.
The woman said her son had just had a meal before he ventured on to the streets with the promise that he would return soon.
“He come to me and say ‘mommy I want some food’ so I take out some fuh he and then he come again and ask for more, so I took out more and I tell he eat, that I gon eat the pepper pot and bread, and when he finish he bring two tablet and tell me keep them fuh he,” Mingo recollected as she sobbed.
“He say, ‘I gon drink one (vitamin) tablet tomorrow because you know you could get blackout if you drink the tablet on empty stomach’, and he left he tell me he going on the road and come back.”
Mingo said about two minutes later a neighbor came banging at their door informing her that “a man just slash Sule` throat”.
Ms. Mingo said she and her daughter raced to the scene where she found her son laying in a pool of blood. The woman said she immediately grabbed her son, and the two women placed him in a car and rushed him to the GPHC.
Meanwhile, even after the news was related to her about her son’s death she still remained doubtful that her son had died in such a cruel manner. Many residents who knew the young man gathered outside the hospital compound, some out of curiosity and others to show support to the grieving family.
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