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Three women among 12 murder victims in January
Shazina Mahamad
The gunning down of a businessman’s wife, the fiery death of another woman at the hands of an arsonist and the killing of a third by a jealous man are among some 12 murders that occurred in January 2015.
Statistics compiled by Kaieteur News indicate that of the 12 victims, seven were slain during disputes, three were “crimes of passion,” there was one execution-style killing and one in which the motive is undetermined.
Seven of the victims were stabbed, two succumbed to burns, two from gunshot wounds and one was clubbed to death. Four of the killings occurred in the interior.
The year’s first victim was 21-year-old Errol Sydney Campbell. He was stabbed to death at Ann’s Grove, East Coast Demerara, allegedly by two youths with whom he had a dispute over the lighting of flares. A dispute over the hurling of squibs reportedly also caused a dispute that led to the year’s second murder.
Andre Britton, 50, was slain at 111 Miles Mahdia, Potaro, allegedly by a young man who Britton had assaulted for throwing squibs into the miner’s yard.
A jealous man is believed to have torched a two-storey house in ‘C’ Field, Sophia on January 2.
Patricia Sanasie
Clifford Sampson, 68, and Tabola Abrams, 39, perished in that attack.
Two other women were slain in January, one, allegedly by a former boyfriend, and the other in an execution-style hit.
On January 12, gunmen clad in black riddled Patricia Sanasie, 43, outside her Lot 129 Atlantic Gardens, East Coast Demerara home.
The shooting came almost a year after her husband, auto dealer, Deokaran Sanasie, called Monkey Ram, survived a similar attempt on his life. A daughter, who witnessed her mother’s murder, went into hiding, while Mrs. Sanasie’s killers remain at large.
The third female slain in January was 19-year-old Shazina Mahamad, who was stabbed to death on January 18, allegedly by a former lover, outside a West Bank Berbice restaurant. A suspect has been charged.
But police are still trying to find out who killed 25-year-old Quincy Johnson and dumped his body in the Demerara River. His body, with a stab wound to the neck,
Tabola Abrams
was fished out of the Demerara River, near West Watooka, on January 8.
Police have received reports that the Half Mile, Wismar, resident had worked with an individual who cultivated marijuana, and that he was slain during a dispute.
Detectives remain baffled by the murder of gold miner Devon Moore, which occurred on January 28, at Five Star, North West District.
A police report indicated that Moore was in his camp, when a man with a shotgun entered, shot him and escaped.
Moore was pronounced dead at the Port Kaituma Hospital.
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