Acting East Coast of Demerara Commander Keithon King has said that an autopsy would not be performed on the remains of Krishna Maniram, the 21-year-old, who succumbed on Monday, days after he was stabbed at a bar at Mon Repos.
“No PM was done because you know they don’t do PM for COVID,” King told Sunday Stabroek in an invited comment yesterday, in reference to Maniram being COVID-19 positive at the time of his death.
He said ranks are currently waiting on a documentation from pathologist, Dr Nehaul Singh to determine the way forward in the matter. “They are trying to get a documentation from the doctor on the way forward,” King said.
Asked whether the suspect in the stabbing has been arrested, King said efforts are still being made to locate him.
The suspect is known by the alias ‘Killa’. Family members had told this newspaper that they learnt that the suspect has fled to neighbouring Suriname.
King was also unable to say why a wanted bulletin has not been issued for the suspect to date.
Maniram, called ‘Boy’ of Lot 190 Bladen Hall, ECD was stabbed about three times to his body during the attack, which occurred around 22.30 hrs on Friday, July 8, at S&S bar. He succumbed sometime on Monday.
His father, Brama Maniram previously told this newspaper that he learnt that Krishna and his friends had ventured to the bar after work on Friday to hang out since the following day was a public holiday and they didn’t have to work.
Upon arrival there, Brama said, the suspect, known by the alias ‘Killa,’ was already in the bar. “I heard that they seh that a guy in the bar mek a problem with him [Krishna] and I don’t know, like the boy like he did really need a problem with somebody but me son and the other boys nah mek no problem with this fella….So like he go to me son and I don’t know wah argument between them two and he buss one bottle and bore me son,” he explained.
Not satisfied, the youth’s assailant then whipped out a knife and allegedly stabbed Krishna two more times to his abdomen and throat.
Apparently unaware that he was seriously injured, Krishna tried to chase after his attacker. “The bai [suspect] wah bore he [Krishna] now run out. Suh me son nah know that he get bore, he tek out he belt and run he,” the father related.
During the chase, the suspect reportedly wounded his son again. “He stop at the gate, pull out the knife again and cut he throat,” Brama said.
Following the wounding, Krishna was rushed to the Georgetown Public Hospital (GPH) by his friends.
Brama told Stabroek News that although Krishna was bleeding profusely, he was put on a wheelchair for some time before he received medical attention.
According to Brama, while at the GPH, Krishna was given a COVID test and the result was positive.
Unbeknownst to the family, Brama said, his son was transferred to the Infectious Diseases Hospital at Liliendaal. “I don’t know wah going on with these people them……When I went at the COVID centre Monday afternoon, I talk to the security them and them go up and come down and seh that how nobody nah know what time he passed away. He already deh at the mortuary,” he related.
“Them nah inform nobody. Me daughter went deh [GPH, so by time they left and go back, they already got he in the ambulance carrying he to the COVID centre,” Brama added.
Brama believes that if his son had received immediate medical attention, he may have lived.
