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Cane-cutter hacks mason to death
Police have detained a cane-cutter in connection with the brutal killing of a 31-year-old mason from Ithaca, West Bank Berbice.
Brentnol Richard Isaacs, called “Tongey”, of Lot 118 Ithaca West Bank Berbice, was badly chopped while drinking with associates at Zorg-en-Hoop Scheme, Blairmont, West Bank Berbice. He succumbed sometime after midnight yesterday.
According to reports, Isaacs was imbibing with some men at a house at around 21:15 hrs Saturday when an argument broke out between him and the prime suspect, a 20-year-old cane-cutter known as “Rakesh’.
Dead: Brentnol Richard Isaacs
A brawl ensued and Isaacs was chopped across his chest and left arm.
He was rushed to the Fort Wellington Hospital, before being transferred to the Georgetown Hospital, where he succumbed.
A number of persons including the prime suspect, his reputed wife Haimwattie called “Mala” are in custody.
The police are also looking for another suspect called “One foot.”
Reports reaching Kaieteur News suggest that the cane-cutter was furious over a relationship between Isaacs and a close female relative of his.
According to his sister, Shonnette Walcott, who is a nurse at the Fort Wellington Hospital, she was at home at around 21:20 hrs when her cousin called and informed her that “Brentnol got chopped across the road”.
By the time she arrived on the scene her cousin and others were lifting the badly wounded man out of the yard into a car. He was taken to the Fort Wellington Hospital, where he was seen by a doctor. The woman said she accompanied her brother in the ambulance as he was being transferred to the Georgetown Hospital, where he died sometime after midnight.
She stated that during the journey her brother kept repeating that “is Rakesh do this.”
The woman said that she was told that her brother is a frequent visitor to the house and he was not imbibing at the time. She said from her understanding it was the suspect that had threatened her brother before.
During the melee the man fired a chop at her cousin and told him “You cousin (Isaacs) does— me mother every night and that is why I (expletive) he up.”
Her cousin has since made a report to the police station.
Isaacs is survived by his son, five–year-old Brentnol (Jr), his sister and two brothers.
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