A 34-year-old unemployed man who was reportedly caught stealing in a yard at around 4 am yesterday at Princetown, Corriverton was chopped to death by an occupant of the home.
The man, Omarnauth ‘Mouth Shammy’ Ramessar, who was said to have had “brushes with the law” and was described as a ‘junkie’ died around 7:30 am at the Skeldon Hospital.
According to police sources, Ramessar suffered “eight gaping wounds to his back and other parts of his body.”
Stabroek News (SN) understands that Ramessar, also of Princetown, entered the yard where the suspect was staying with his family by breaking the picket fence. At the same time the suspect was going outside when he caught Ramessar removing a wall picture.
The suspect picked up his cutlass and when he confronted Ramessar about what he was doing in the yard, he replied “ah just come fuh drink lil water.”
The suspect’s wife told this newspaper that she had gotten up to cook for him to go to work and after he left to go outside she heard the commotion. She said she heard her husband ask the man “so early in the morning you come here fuh drink water.”
She said after he was chopped Ramessar again scaled the fence “and he fall and left right there [in front of the house]. She said they telephoned the owner of the house who lives at Line Path, Skeldon and told him what happened.
He arrived shortly after in the company of a police officer from the Springlands Station and took the man to the hospital.
The owner’s son who lives in another section of the house, told SN that he and the suspect accompanied them to the hospital and the police told them it was ok for them to go home.
Shortly after, he said the police returned to the home and told them that the man had sustained more than one chop and they would have to go to the station.
He said they were giving statements when the police arrived and told them that the man had died. The son said the police released him and kept the suspect in custody.
