Students aged 14 & 15 confessed to fatally stabbing man at G/Town bus park
Two students, aged 14 and 15, were arrested over the murder of John Williams, which occurred at Commerce Street, Georgetown, between Longden and Water Streets on Saturday.
The Guyana Police Force (GPF), in a statement, said that Williams, a 33-year-old machine operator of Lot 102 Martyr's Ville, Mon Repos, East Coast Demerara (ECD) was walking north on Water Street at about 21:15h with a green haversack on his back.
He turned east onto Commerce Street and was confronted by three suspects from behind. Another suspect was identified as 19-year-old Daniel Badley of 102 Quamina Road, Beterverwagting.
It is alleged that the 15-year-old held on to Williams’s haversack, and he put up a resistance. As a result, one of the suspects dealt the machine operator a stab to his left upper chest with a knife. The man immediately fell face down on the roadway motionless, and the suspects walked away in an eastern direction, then turned south and escaped.
Emergency Medical Technicians were summoned, and Williams was examined and pronounced dead on the scene.
The body was clad in a white jersey, white vest, long black jeans, and brown steel tips boots with a green haversack. The body was escorted to Memorial Gardens Mortuary, awaiting post-mortem examination. The Police said efforts are being made to arrest Badley.
The said two suspects were questioned, and they claimed that the intent was to rob the victim. A green handle knife was found in the waist of the 15-year-old when he was arrested, which was marked sealed and lodged. Investigations are ongoing.
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