Wedding house brawl leaves one dead, other critical

Jan 18, 2016 News

The senseless killing which has gripped Guyana in recent weeks continued with the brutal murder of a Berbice resident and the critical wounding of another which occurred at a wedding house yesterday.
Dead is Surendra Nauth, called “Sham,” 29, a labourer of the Albion Estate and of Albion Corentyne, Berbice.
He was stabbed in his abdomen.
Seriously injured to his head is Totaram Bhola, 25, a hire car driver of Albion Front, Corentyne Berbice. He is the brother-in-law of the slain man.
The suspect is still at large.
According to the brother of the slain man, he and his sibling had earlier decided to stay at home and have a drink.
The grieving man stated that Surendra subsequently informed him that he was going to a wedding house at Williamsburg back-dam. He stated that he advised his brother not to go, but Surendra told him that it was his wife’s relatives and he will be spending a short time.
Rabindra said that he subsequently checked his phone and saw two missed call from his brother. He immediately headed to the wedding house.
Upon arrival, he saw his brother dancing.

Surendra Nauth and his wife, Anetta Evans

He was subsequently informed by his wife that a man with a knife had slashed the tyre of a car outside the wedding house.
According to the brother, after being asked about the tyre, the man became annoyed and slashed Bhola, the brother-in-law, on his forehead. He then stabbed Surendra in the abdomen.
Rabindra stated that he did not know that his brother was injured. “After a see he chop Bhola to he head and then see like he chuck me brother and he went backwards and I approach the man and he run and I run behind he. Me na bin know that he stab me brother.
“When a return a see me brother lie down in the back seat of the car. When we check we realized that me brother car wheel also puncture.
The badly injured brother was rushed to the Port Mourant Hospital before being transferred to the New Amsterdam Hospital, where he succumbed.
According to the man, he can identify the individual who killed his brother. The suspect, known as ‘Shandy,’ was recently released from jail and is well known to the authorities.
Nauth is survived by a seven-year-old son and a daughter, aged six; his wife, Anetta Evans, brother, sister and his parents.