A 16-year-old boy who allegedly stabbed a man to death at Paradise on Tuesday, because he disapproved of the relationship between the man and his younger sister, yesterday appeared in the Vigilance Magistrate’s Court charged with murder.
He was not required to plead to the capital offence when it was read to him by Magistrate Sherdel Isaacs Marcus and was expressionless throughout the proceedings.
It is alleged that on Tuesday, in the East Coast Demerara village, the teen murdered 20-year-old Dexroy Dodson.
He was represented by Attorney-at-law Sandel Kissoon, while Police Prosecutor Edmond Cooper represented the state.
The teen will made his second appearance at the Cove and John Magistrate’s Court on September 30.
Reports are that the 16-year-old had voiced his displeasure about his sister seeing Dodson.
However, Dodson and the girl, said to be 15 years old, met as usual near a roadside shop and were later seen sitting on a bench a short distance away chatting. Some time before 11 pm, the attacker, who was allegedly hiding in the vicinity, pounced from behind a lamppost opposite the bench the two were sitting on. After slapping his sister, he allegedly stabbed Dodson in the chest.
Wounded, Dodson made a desperate attempt to reach his home located some four house lots away at Lot 393 Paradise Housing Scheme but collapsed near a trench, a few metres away. He was later found lying face down, the front of the white vest he was wearing drenched in blood.
After inflicting the injury, the attacker fled the area but early the next morning turned up at the Cove and John Police Station in the company of his mother.
Police in a release last night said that a post-mortem examination conducted yesterday on the remains of Dodson, a cane cutter, revealed that he died as a result of haemorrhage due to a stab wound to the heart.
