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.
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.
