The man who allegedly stabbed minibus driver Gavin Fiffee to death on Thursday remained at large
The now deceased Gavin Fiffee and his reputed wife Antonia Beveney
yesterday, despite reassurances from some family members that he would have turned himself in.
Police said that they failed to locate the suspect after checking at his mother’s Ann’s Grove, East Coast of Demerara home on Thursday night.
“We went to his home last night and will keep searching for him, a police official said.
Police said that they have received reports that both men were injured in the fracas, with 31-year-old Fiffee getting the worst of the exchange. Detectives have also been checking at hospitals for the suspect.
The man’s mother told Kaieteur News that someone called the family at around 02.00 hrs yesterday to tell them that her son had been stabbed. She said that relatives checked at a number of hospitals but failed to locate him.
Eyewitnesses have identified Fiffee’s attacker as an Ann’s Grove man known as ‘Orin’ or ‘Bad Boy.’
According to reports, Fiffee, of 93 Sideline Dam, Beterverwagting, was loading his minibus at the Plaisance bus park on Thursday night when another man began urinating on the wheel of the vehicle.
A scuffle reportedly ensued between Fiffee and the man, during which Fiffee was stabbed to the upper right chest.
Fiffee was rushed to the Georgetown Public Hospital Corporation (GPHC) where he succumbed on the operating table.