Returning home from Barbados to spend Christmas with his family for the first time in five years, a 22-year-old Tuschen, East Bank Essequibo (EBE) man was stabbed to death on New Year’s Day during an altercation with a group of men at a rum shop at Greenwich Park, EBE.
Dewaun Anthony Baksh sustained a wound to his neck and a gaping injury to his left shoulder and was pronounced dead-on-arrival at the Leonora Cottage Hospital to where he was rushed after the 9.30pm incident. It appeared that the wounds were inflicted by a broken bottle.
According to the police, Baksh was involved in an altercation with a group of men at Greenwich Park during which he was stabbed about his body.
The suspect is still on the run but police have arrested the driver of a car that reportedly aided the man in his escape.
This was the first Christmas Baksh spent with his family in five years. He returned home from Barbados a few months ago where he did maintenance work and was expected to leave after the holidays. Stabroek News was told that Baksh left home at around 5.40pm on Friday with his twin brother, Dewane and a younger brother, Rafeek, 20, and two friends in a minibus to continue their New Year celebration.
Rafeek told Stabroek News that they headed to the Bushy Park beach where they spent a little time before going to Meten-Meer-Zorg to the home of another friend who had invited them. Subsequently, he said, Dewane returned home and they proceeded to a rum shop, popularly known as the ‘Pink Shop.’
According to Rafeek, when they got to the shop, he recognised a “fellow who had a lil vibes with my sister two years ago. I asked him if he could remember me and he said no.”
He said Baksh came up at the same time and asked him if everything was ok and another man who was with the
