Two men die from stab wounds

Two men died yesterday morning from stab wounds following separate incidents in the city.

While one of the men, 27-year-old Shane Booker died a few yards away from his Leopold Street home, the other man, Deon Manderson, called ‘Yellow’, 30, of Lot 9 North Road, Lacytown was stabbed twice to the heart while attending a bar-b-que at Back Circle, East Ruimveldt.

The police said in a release that they are investigating the murder of Booker which occurred at around 4 am yesterday. The release said that Booker was involved in an argument with a man during which he was stabbed to the neck and he was pronounced dead at the Georgetown Public Hospital Corporation.

When Stabroek News visited the man’s home, his partner Donald (only name given) was sitting outside of their home despondently.

“I don’t even know what to tell you because right now I can’t believe the man dead and every time I look at he picture it just driving me crazy,” he told this newspaper.

He recalled that Shane and a woman had an argument earlier in the night and the woman later left the scene.

“Shane was lying right in front of that house [pointing to a house not far from where he was sitting] when she bring she man and he and Shane had an argument,” Donald said.

While he would not say what was the genesis of the argument he recalled that “Shane say wah he had to say and he turn away and is then the man stab he in he neck.”

Donald said he was a short distance away but he did not know that Shane’s assailant was armed at the time until he saw him lunge at Shane and he later saw him pulling the knife from the man’s neck. The man then ran up the road as Shane lay on the road bleeding.

“He dead right on the road because nobody didn’t want take him to the hospital and the blood was gushing out he neck like water,” Donald said.

He described Shane’s attacker as a “known character” since he was in jail several times but the police are yet to arrest the man.

The death of Shane has brought back bitter memories for Donald who lost another partner under similar circumstances ten years ago.“I saying I must be have to stop living with people because is ten years ago he get stab and now Shane gone and dead the same way, I really don’t know what to say,” the grieving man said.

Over in North Road, Manderson’s sister Arlene Richards told this newspaper that she received the news about her brother’s death at around 2 am but she is still unclear as to what caused his death.

The police in a release said that the murder occurred at around 1:30 yesterday morning.

According to the release Manderson was at a bar-b-que during which a man confronted him resulting in injuries to his chest.

Richards said that she was at a dance at the Transport ground when she got the news.

“I went and buy something to eat then me friend ask me if I get a brother name `Yellow’ and I tell she yes and she tell me he just get shoot and dead.”

The woman said she rushed to the GPHC where she found other relatives and she was later told that her brother died from two stab wounds to his heart.

Stabroek News caught up with two other siblings of the man but both said they were unsure as to the circumstances of the man’s death.

One brother said he heard that the man was standing on the road when a man just walked up to him and stabbed him twice before fleeing.

Richards said her brother was unemployed at the time since he had broken one of his legs and was walking with the support of a crutch.

He has left to mourn five children and six siblings.

The police said they are yet to arrest his assailant.