By Mario Joseph
A man was beaten to death after he allegedly robbed a woman yesterday morning at Samantha Point, Grove, East Bank Demerara.
Although police say Eldon Sampson, 24, of Old Road, Craig, East Bank Demerara, was found battered on a road in the village, residents said he was beaten by a group of men who later took him to the Grove Police Station in the trunk of a car belonging to one of his assailants.
According to the police, Sampson was found with multiple injuries at about 10:45am on the road and was later pronounced dead at the Diamond Diagnostic Centre. “A bag containing $50,000, a cell phone and a laptop computer that were reported stolen earlier from a female resident were recovered by the police, along with a bicycle and a knife,” police said. Sampson was recently released from prison after serving a sentence for armed robbery, police also reported.
At Grove, however, residents recounted that around 9am Sampson, who was riding a bicycle, attacked a woman and robbed her. He was subsequently swarmed by a group of men,
