A 28-year-old minibus conductor is now in police custody assisting with investigations in last evening’s stabbing to death of a Leopold Street resident near the Stabroek Market.
Dead is Rawle Rodrigues, 43, a carpenter of 64 Leopold Street, Werk-en-Rust. Police in a statement said that the incident occurred about 21:30 hrs when Rodrigues had an altercation with two men, one of whom delivered a fatal stab to his chest. He was rushed to the Georgetown Public Hospital (GPH) and was pronounced dead on arrival.
The dead man’s sister, Anastacia Rodrigues, told Stabroek News that her brother was making his way from the “Dairy bus park” (Parfait Harmonie) where he had been drinking when he was
