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Teen stabbed to death on Kitty seawall
– four detained
Police have detained four men as they try to ascertain how a 19-year-old Lodge resident ended up being stabbed to death near the Kitty seawalls around 02: 30 hrs yesterday.
They are also probing claims by one of the detained men that the youth was attempting to rob a vendor when he was slain, a claim that the dead man’s relatives are angrily denying.
Dead: Jamal Harris
Detectives have also impounded a Toyota Raum that the victim had rented from an acquaintance.
Police said that Jamal Harris, said to be an employee of the New Guyana Pharmaceutical Corporation, and of Lot 81, Joseph Pollydore Street, Lodge, was stabbed in the chest and abdomen during an altercation with a group of individuals at the Kitty seawalls.
Police said that he was pronounced dead on arrival at the Georgetown Public Hospital Corporation.
Police have detained the individual who allegedly stabbed Harris, as well as two brothers whose family owns the sports utility vehicle that Harris had rented. A friend of the slain youth is also in custody.
Kaieteur News understands that the man who allegedly stabbed Harris claimed that he had intervened when the teen and another youth attempted to rob an acquaintance of his, who vends regularly on the seawalls.
The man allegedly said that he inflicted the fatal wounds while struggling with Harris, who was armed.
Detectives have questioned the seawall vendor, who allegedly corroborated the suspect’s story. He has since been released.
Ranks from the Kitty Police Station took the handcuffed suspect back to the scene several hours after the incident. Some of the ranks were observed searching the area, but Kaieteur News was unable to ascertain whether they were looking for the murder weapon.
It was alleged that after Harris was stabbed, the teen’s accomplice fled the scene, while another individual in a black Toyota Raum then drove up, placed the injured man in the vehicle and drove away.
Hospital sources confirmed that someone in a Toyota Raum took the mortally wounded Harris to the GPHC, but disappeared, leaving the vehicle in the hospital compound.
Kaieteur News was told that Harris and another friend rented the vehicle for $5,000 around 17:00 hrs on Sunday, while indicating that they were “going to the creek.”
Harris’s girlfriend, Tandika Hinckson, told Kaieteur News that he had picked her up in the rented vehicle around 02:00 hrs yesterday from my mother’s house in Tucville, and dropped her off in Joseph Pollydore Street, Lodge.
Some time later, she received a call from an individual who said that Jamal had been stabbed.
Harris’s mother, Yvonne Smith, said she accompanied her son’s girlfriend to the GPHC.
Ms. Smith told Kaieteur News that she was not allowed to see her son, and was informed that the doctors in the Emergency Unit were “working on him.”
Eventually, a nurse emerged from the Emergency Unit and informed them that the doctor wanted to see them. “We go in and the doctor said that they had tried but because of the amount of blood he had lost he couldn’t make it.”
Ms. Smith dismissed any suggestion that her son, who she said was employed at the New Guyana Pharmaceutical Corporation as an electrician, was no criminal.
“If they say that my son fight, I would believe that, but thiefing, I would never believe that. I would never believe that at all.”
Expressing similar sentiments, the slain teen’s girlfriend said that he had a “well-paying job” and was a dedicated worker.
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