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Jilted man butchers gay sex workers, kills self
By Latoya Giles
A 31-year-old former security guard ran amok in the city shortly after midnight yesterday, butchering two popular male sex workers before dousing himself with petrol and setting himself alight.
Dead: Jason Samuels, called ‘Jada’
Dead: Carlyle Sinclair, also known as “Tyra”
Dead: The killer, Samuel Bristol
Jason John Samuels, 27, also known as “Jada”, of Lot 104 Lamaha Street, was stabbed to death in a section of Leopold Street that is a popular area for transgender men, while Carlyle Sinclair, 23, also known as “Tyra”, was found dead in Lombard Street, with several stab wounds about the body.
Police identified the killer as 31-year-old Samuel Bristol, of Nabaclis, East Coast Demerara, who succumbed in the Georgetown Public Hospital’s Burn Care Unit, after setting himself alight.
Reports suggest that Bristol vented his rage on the two transgender men after being jilted by a male sex worker with whom he had an almost five-year relationship.
Kaieteur News was told that Bristol first went to North Road, opposite the St. George’s Cathedral where “sex workers” would gather after sundown.
This newspaper was told that Bristol threw what appeared to be “gasoline” on one of the sex workers. An eyewitness told Kaieteur News that there was a scuffle with Bristol and the “sex workers” after he tried to set them alight.
Bristol was however outnumbered and ended up fleeing the scene and joined a vehicle belonging to a popular security firm. According to reports it was the same vehicle which transported him to Leopold Street where he meted out the brutal attack on the two transgender men. Kaieteur News was further told that Bristol first attacked Sinclair on Lombard Street, stabbing the gay man repeatedly.
Bristol then walked to Leopold Street where he confronted Samuels. According to reports Samuels was stabbed in the chest and collapsed in the street. Kaieteur News was told that when Sinclair bled to death at the scene because several taxi drivers refused to carry him to the hospital.
The bodies were taken to the Lyken Funeral Home.
Carlyle Sinclair’s mother collapses after identifying her son’s body
After stabbing the two transgender men, Bristol reportedly went to Regent Street where he doused himself with gasoline and set himself alight.
Paramedics from the GPHC rushed to the area just before sunrise yesterday after receiving calls that a man had just set himself ablaze. When the ambulance rushed to the scene, the man was still alive but was badly burnt to over 80 percent of his body.
He was pronounced dead just before 08.00 hrs. Scores of sex workers gathered at the Georgetown Hospital after the news of the attack spread.
Colecia Moses, a sister of Sinclair, told Kaieteur News that relatives got a call sometime after midnight that her sibling had been killed. Moses said she rushed to the GPHC, where they positively identified Sinclair’s corpse. Several relatives had to comfort the young man’s mother who was crying hysterically.
“Regardless of his choice in lifestyle he was my child…he didn’t deserve to die like this,” she lamented.
Sinclair is survived by five other siblings.
Carol Woolford, the mother of Jason John Samuels, told Kaieteur News that some of her son’s friends came to her Lamaha Street residence at around 01.30 hrs to inform the family of his death.
“His friends were at the house they went to the scene and saw him lying on the ground …he had a large stab wound to the stomach.”
Over at Bristol’s house, the mood was one of disbelief.
“I don’t know what really happened. I was told not to go (to the hospital), so I am just waiting to hear what happened,” Bristol’s mother told this newspaper.
When this newspaper visited, his parents were being consoled by neighours and other relatives all of whom were in shock that Bristol could have committed such an act.
Several villagers in his home village of Nabaclis expressed surprise that Bristol even took his own life.
“He had time to think about what he was doing, so I can’t understand how he kill he self,” one villager said.
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