Teen goes berserk, knifes Tiger Bay resident to death

Aug 30, 2015 News

A 19-year-old man was under police guard last night at the Georgetown hospital, nursing minor injuries which he sustained after he went berserk and knifed a sleeping resident to death.
The incident occurred around 18:15 hrs yesterday at Rosemarry Lane (Tiger Bay) and has left the community in a state of disbelief.
The victim whose only name was given as ‘Rastaman’, reportedly died on the spot after receiving about 19 stab wounds to several parts of his body.
When Kaieteur News arrived in the area, the body of the victim, along with the wounded assailant, whose name was given as Christopher Francis Stanley was already taken away by undertakers and police respectively.
The dead man who is also known as ‘Red cap’ had moved to the area from Leopold Street just about six weeks ago, but according to residents he hails from Bartica. He is said to be a tout who works outside nightspots on Main Street and had only celebrated his 49th birthday on Friday.
The killer, Stanley is described as a troubled teenager who began “acting spaced out and behaving like he trip, doing strange things,” a few days ago.

Tawana Clark is overcome with grief as she stares at the blood stained interior of her mother’s shack.

Alleged stabber Christopher Stanley

A very shaken Tawana Clark, 15, who normally shares the same mattress in her mother’s shack with ‘Rastaman’ had witnessed a part of the brutal stabbing when she entered her mother’s shack at lot 910 Rosemary Lane.
“When I push the door, I see Christopher sitting on top of Rastaman, jucking he and I start holler and run out. To me, Christopher looked like he possessed how he eyes was looking when he look up at me.”
“I run in and turn Rastaman over. He had two holes in he chest, a cut on he shoulder and blood was spray up all over the place,” a crying Clark recounted.
She called for help but by the time others arrived the man was breathing his last breath.
She added that it seemed as if the victim had already succumbed to his injury because a neighbour checked but could not find a pulse.
According to the 15-year-old, the police subsequently arrived and took the victim to the Georgetown Public Hospital Corporation (GPHC) where he was pronounced dead.
Junior Stanley, the killer’s brother, told this publication that he saw his brother about 17:30 hrs sharpening a knife outside a shop but did not think much of it.
“He been operating strange for weeks now. We tried to take he to hospital but he does resist so we leave he alone cause he didn’t look like he would do anything so drastic.”
The next time he saw his brother was about 18:30hrs, running from the neighbour’s yard in the shantytown with blood on his hands. He was being chased by a mob of residents.
“Is then I find out that he just juck up Rastaman… but as far as I know, he and nobody ain’t had no problem before,” the brother said.
He also repeated reports from residents that his brother was seen “dipping and drinking gutter water on Friday.”
Some stated that the teenager began acting strange and was accusing people of giving his mother drugs to smoke.
“Is like he trip a lil while now but we never know he would do something like kill somebody. But lil before we hear Rastaman hollering for help, we see Christopher kill a cat,” one resident reported. Wayne Rodgers, another resident, showed a cut on his head and reported that he saw Stanley with a knife and when he turned away, Stanley attacked him.
“When I get the knock from behind and I see me blood, I start to run from he because he had a knife or he would’a kill me first. Next thing I know the man go in Rastaman shack and then I hear Rastaman hollering.”
The berserk youth was taken to the Brickdam Police Station and was subsequently sent to the Accident and Emergency Unit of the Georgetown Hospital. There, Kaieteur News found him restrained on a gurney with handcuffs.
At the hospital, a woman who identified the young man as her stepson said, “he is normally a good boy but of recent he started tripping out for a number of reasons and we tried to get him help.”
The police are said to be investigating.