The music cart vendor who was stabbed to death last Friday at G City Electronics and Record Bar, Camp and D’Uurban streets, where he worked, is still unidentified as his employer said he did not know his name or where he lived; he was known only as ‘Dougla Boy’.
However, Lawrence Braithwaite, who owns the record bar, claimed that the suspect, who was also an employee, was mentally ill.
The murder is suspected to have occurred around 2 am and employees at the store are speculating that it was a fight over a hammock. An employee, who did not want to be named, said that when arrived at work on Friday morning, he found the suspect washing blood off the concrete in front of the store. He said the man was questioned and when he and others went to the back of the yard, they saw the dead body there and called the police.
They surmised that after he was stabbed, ‘Dougla Boy’ might have run to the back of the yard where he succumbed.
Meanwhile, Braithwaite said the two men were friends and he was surprised that the suspect was capable of such brutal bloodshed.
Braithwaite described the assailant as honest, hardworking, meticulous and brilliant when it came to his work as a record keeper. Both men sold music CDs off push carts around the city.
Braithwaite said looking back there were signs that the alleged killer was not right in the head.
He said when the man was conversing, he would go off on a tangent that had nothing to do with the conversation.
Braithwaite said, “You’d be talking to him and out of the blue he’d claim a girl that he didn’t even know and call her his girlfriend.” He added, “He’d make threats to kill anyone if they were to interfere with the girl.”
Braithwaite said he was aware that a doctor had diagnosed the man with mental illness but he was not certain of the illness.
The suspect remained in custody as the police continued their investigations.
