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Knife-wielding man stabs cousin in Tiger Bay feud
A Tiger Bay family feud spanning two decades has landed a father of five in hospital with a stab wound to the heart and his assailant, who is his cousin, in police custody.
Stabbed with a ‘Rambo knife’ is father and laborer Alpha Fletchman, age 25 of lot 9-10 Queen Street, Tiger Bay, South Cummingsburg.
Tresceline Rossan, 42, of Lot 36 Fourth Street, Kingston, was in church leading worship when her daughter Naomi delivered news via phone call that her son “Alpha just get juk up.”
Stabbed: Alpha Fletchman
Alpha Fletchman in hospital yesterday
Petrina Chandra, 24, his reputed wife, witnessed what transpired.
“He (Alpha Fraser) was playing ball and there was fight which he parted then as he was heading home he saw a girl name Nitika Moore called Pookie cussing me out.”
“When ‘Alpha’ was asking what is the problem, he cousin, the neighborhood bully who does live next door, come out to represent he woman and an argument started.”
His cousin has been identified as a former boxer.
“Then when me child-father was walking away, the cousin push a Rambo knife in he left side chest and the knife stick in he chest.”
Luckily, a neighbor named Jeffery saw the man bleeding and volunteered to transport him to the Georgetown Public Hospital Corporation on his motorcycle.
While Fletchman was being transported to the hospital reports are that his cousin attempted to escape but was apprehended by residents.
Police eventually arrived on the scene and the suspect was detained.
Relatives of both men informed this publication that it is a family feud that has been ongoing for more than two decades.
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