Four arrested after labourer stabbed to death in Corentyne

Jul 07, 2023 News

Kaieteur News – Four persons have been arrested following the stabbing to death of a 29-year-old labourer from Kilcoy/Chesney Settlement (Squatting area) on Wednesday.

Dead is Leon Kum called ‘Leo’ of lot 21 A Kilcoy/Chesney, Corentyne, Berbice. Kum was reportedly stabbed to death while asleep in a ‘camp house’.

Police disclosed that Kum was killed around 01:30h by two males. However, four persons have since been arrested for the man’s murder. Reports are that Kum was resting in a ‘camp house’ located approximately 15 feet from his zinc house.

Sattie Ramotar

Police said that Kum had ventured to the zinc house to get something to eat after which he returned to his ‘camp house’. It was shortly after his return to the ‘camp house’ that his relatives who live nearby heard loud noises coming from the ‘camp house’.

Upon checking, the relatives said they saw two males “jumping over the fence where Leon was sleeping and ran towards the western direction.” Kum was subsequently found lying face down on the ground with lacerations to his throat and left cheek. He was taken to the Port Mourant Public Hospital where he was pronounced dead on arrival.

Meanwhile, Sattie Ramotar, Kum’s relative who lives opposite him said he lived with her daughter and son-in-law in the zinc house. Ramotar said she spent the day at Kum’s house and left at night. She recalled that before she left for her home, Kum indicated that he wanted to sleep and opted to sleep in a hammock that was in the ‘camp house’.

Ramotar said sometime around 01:00h while she was cooking, she heard banging on the Kum’s zinc house.

“…me hear the zinc knock and me thought goat mussy knock the zinc and after that me hear the zinc knock hard again so me open the window to see, but me na see nothing so me run out and open the kitchen door after and me see me son -in-law running a person and by the time me run out, the person done reach on the road…”

The scene of the murder

Ramotar said her son-in-law was pursuing the person who was riding a bicycle. After seeing this, she ran out of her home to Kum’s yard which is unfenced. It was then she saw Kum slumped over with blood oozing from his neck near the hammock in the ‘camp house’.

“…When me check with the light, me see the blood and me start holla for me son-in-law and me seh …Mikey bare blood,” Ramotar stated. Police were subsequently contacted after it was discovered that Kum had already died.

The woman disclosed that her neighbours informed that they saw another person running away from Kum’s home on foot.

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