Lennox O’Dean, the RK‘s security guard who was discovered bleeding from a fatal neck wound at Regent Street and Avenue of the Republic on Tuesday evening, was reportedly stabbed by a man who escaped in a waiting car.
Lennox O'Dean
O’Dean, 58, also called Lennox Hughes of Melanie Housing Scheme, East Coast Demerara was rushed to the Georgetown Public Hospital (GPH) by police on Tuesday evening. The man died shortly after while receiving medical attention from Emergency Room doctors. Hospital sources had reported that the man sustained a wound to the neck and abrasions to the head.
Initially the circumstances surrounding O’Dean’s death were sketchy and Stabroek News was told that a police officer, directing traffic along Avenue of the Republic last evening, was called to the scene by a member of the public. Relatives have since said that the same member of the public reported seeing a man stab O’Dean to the neck and then escape in a waiting car.
“This person told us that they were riding by same time and saw wah happen but they were riding a motorcycle along a one way at the time and could not turn back,” one of O’Dean’s daughters explained, “and by the time they circle ‘round de block he [O’Dean] was sprawled on de corner.”
Meanwhile, the deceased’s daughter revealed that Tuesday night was the third time the man was attacked in recent times. O’Dean, she said, was attacked last Friday by two men on a bicycle. One of the men had slashed his bag with a knife.
“Look this is the third time my father was attacked and is only last week Friday they attacked him,” the distressed woman said. “He had reported that matter to the Brickdam Police Station and we haven’t heard anything about it to date.”
Her father was first attacked at Regent and King streets about a month ago, the woman recalled, and had suffered several stab wounds to his right leg and back. O’Dean she said had received stitches at the hospital and had taken a week off of work. The first attack was very traumatic for her father, the woman said, and he started taking a bus from his Regent Street workplace to Regent Street and Avenue of the Republic which is just a few feet away from the East Coast Demerara bus park.
“The first time my father was robbed he told me that he screamed and screamed for help but people pass by and didn’t stop to help him,” the woman related. “He said that he lay there screaming in pain for about half hour before a woman passed by in a taxi and decide to stop and help him.”
O’Dean was robbed at Regent and Wellington streets last Friday his daughter said. The man was attacked by two men on a bicycle, on of whom he recognized as a person who was normally around the Regent Street area.
The man’s relatives said that they have given “all the information to police” and are hoping that something will be done. Asked whether they were confident that they will receive justice, relatives said they “are not so sure.”
RK’s Security Service has since issued a press statement in which they are offering a $250,000 reward for the capture of O’Dean’s killer(s). O’Dean’s relatives were unable to say why the security company has offered the award and efforts made to contact a relevant company official for a comment were futile.
“I think that one of my father’s attackers probably realized that my father recognized him so he came back to get him…my father was a quiet man and he never trouble anyone…only heaven knows why this happen,” the deceased’s daughter said.
Report from whom , SN ? And oh yes, “Satbroek News was told..” Told by whom ?.
Editor responsible: Stop stuffing your face with chicken, dhal,sweet and sour pork, etc and get feet off desk and give us proper reporting rarther than this junk with the usual padding at end….
Want number for Minister of responsible for GUY-EXPO to get a story on this important event next month ? So far, the paper hasn’t carried anything…
Reddy I’d like to think you have work to do…don’t let your boss hear you’ve been spending company time reading SN. Reddy was your childhood dream to become a journalist? You failed terribly…I guess that’s why you fancy yourself a critic of Guyanese journalism. Go work!
i hope whosoever kill this man is caught and brought to justice, the police need to investigate all leads.
A very determined killer must now be hunted down by an inept police department. Another addition to the Cold Case files. Life is very cheap in the land of my birth.
This is what most of you like to see Borapoke, to get some political milage at the expense of a man’s life, the other day when a thief was gunned down by a public spirited citizen after robbing a woman of her gold chain, everyone of you jumped down his throat…The Guyana human rights group should make a statement on this now,,, because I am sure that not long from now this criminal will be caught and it may be ” by the sword”, I will wait to see the outcome then…
I SECOND THAT
I dont understand this guy reddy,if the police dont have the info as to who stab or how the guy died,how will SN? they get the info from the dauther which the shared,i sometimes wonder why he dont come back here and be the boss of the security force,about reporting standards he say check KN yesterday,and guess what that reporter needs more schooling,a double murder happen in North west ,his report says Lethem double murder,come on reddy ,u need to start over cause u na ready
Soldier: I will never support vigilante justice. As inept as the police are, the wheels of justice must run its course and summary execution by a firearm holder whose life was not threatened must never be condoned. Read the constitution of your adopted homeland and have respect for the rule of law.
soldier these are all church going criminals, why harm them, let bora and cak eye go and apprehend them in a civilized manner.
no one except yourself has politicized this issue soldier, what are you really saying.
According to the victim’s daughter, after being attacked previously, the man “lay there screaming in pain for about half hour before a woman passed by in a taxi and decide to stop and help him.” As I mentioned a couple of days ago, this is a disturbing trend in Guyana. Guyanese often won’t try to help each other. They will, however, curse people from foreign countries when they don’t help them in the manner in which they want to be helped.
The criminals know Guyanese won’t intervene to stop them or help their victims, so the carnage will continue.
Hope justice is served.
May the family have the strength to pull through this.
I hope Roshan Khan does right by this man’s family.