A Berbice River man was yesterday remanded to prison after he was charged with the murder of 19-year-old Selmon King who was severely chopped on August 29 at Kimbia Village, Berbice River.
Corrwin Walker, 24, a farmer, of Kimbia, Upper Berbice River appeared via Zoom yesterday at the Linden Magistrate’s Court before Magistrate Wanda Fortune where he was charged with murdering King, a logger, of Wiruni, Upper Berbice River.
Walker was not required to plead to the charge and was remanded to prison. He will return to court on October, 24, for a report.
King was chopped on his neck, face and about his body around 3 am last Monday. His nephew, Shane Osborne, 18, remains hospitalized at the New Amsterdam Public Hospital after one of his wrists was severed. He also sustained a chop wound to his neck.
Osborne’s father, Vanwest Osborne, a Councillor for the Wiruni Village had told Stabroek News that his son and King left home to head to nearby Kimbia Village to attend a reception for a wedding on Sunday, August 28. According to the father, who was in New Amsterdam at the time of the attack, he received a message from a boat operator around 3.15 am Monday that his son had been badly injured. “He call and tell me my son hand get chop out and they bringing him out.”
Osborne said that he then tried to find out exactly what transpired between the attacker and his relatives when he was told that late Sunday evening, King and Osborne left the reception and headed to a nearby “drinking place.”
There were two men present who began arguing over the ownership of a cutlass. Osborne said, he was told that his son chimed in and said that the cutlass cannot belong to both of them “and my son Shane turn and say ‘you think me is them boys who you does deh slapping up, slapping up’ and the boy (attacker) chuck he (son) up and he (son) fall into the water and then the boy (attacker) start the chopping.”
According to the father, he was told that after his son began screaming, King intervened and then he was also brutally chopped about his body.
