Michael Wilson, 40, a labourer of Golden Grove, East Coast Demerara (ECD) was fatally stabbed yesterday morning at about 8.15 and his 30-year-old common law wife has been taken into custody.
A release from the police yesterday said that it was reported that the couple had been experiencing domestic problems during the past two years.
On Sunday, the police said that Wilson and his common-law wife were involved in an argument at their Lot 109 Sideline Dam residence and she told him that she was ending their relationship and would be returning to her parents’ house.
According to the police release, at about 8 am yesterday, the suspect and Wilson were at home and while she was packing her belongings a violent argument ensued. The police said that Wilson armed himself with a knife which he allegedly used to cut her on her left forearm. During the assault, the woman disarmed Wilson and dealt him two stabs to his abdomen, the police said.
An Emergency Medical Technician (EMT) was summoned and escorted Wilson who was in an unconscious state to the Georgetown Public Hospi-tal (GPH) where he was admitted to the Emergency Unit. He later died while receiving treatment.
The police said that the 30-year-old woman was then escorted to the Nabac-lis Hospital by another EMT, where she was examined by a doctor and eventually transferred to the GPH where she remains under police guard.
Stabroek News yesterday visited the scene and villagers had a different story of the ordeal.
One of the neighbours who Wilson ran to for assistance, Odessa Wray, yesterday told Stabroek News that she heard no arguments from the couple on Sunday and that it wasn’t until the man had started to call out for help that she was aware that something was amiss between the two.
“So like he was sleeping because I didn’t hear any noise or argument between them and … then is when he start calling fuh me ‘Ode! Ode! Ode’! like he calling fuh me all the time …
“So when I hear he calling I start going to he rescue but I have a lil hip problem so I can’t walk fast, so I walk and I stand up right down deh (while pointing to the entry of her bridge) and I see he cousin from he father side that went on the road and I start call for he fuh come and see, I seh ‘Joel! Joel! Joel!’, and I stand up and start call for the neighbour over the next side as well and seh ‘come out! come out! Mickey and he girl, yall come out. Me alone gone go?… Mickey managed to escape from the girl and he come over at me but I still went on the street trying fuh get people fuh come and call the police and ambulance and so on”, explained Wray.
The woman said that by the time she had gotten back to her house Wilson was already in a bad way.
“When I come in back in me house I see Mickey deh in me kitchen flat pon the ground bleeding…Is share ‘ah Ode, ah Ode’, how he crying out for the pain…so they (other persons in the yard) wrap he up with a sheet because they say they can’t let the stab them expose to air…he seh ‘Ode meh a call fuh yuh help me’, I said Mickey you live and you will not die,” added the woman.
Wray told this newspaper that from her knowledge, Wilson never hit the woman and during the entire ordeal he could not have helped himself nor defended himself due to a severe cut on his hand that he sustained recently while he was in the interior. She added that the cut never really healed and that the stitches that he received were still visible.
“They didn’t had no quarrel the night before, nothing, them had a lil party downstairs by he (Wilson) and he enjoy heself and well (and) due to the cut he couldn’t drink cause he using tablets…but who know that that would’ve been the last time he enjoy he self”, she said.
The grieving neighbour described her relationship with Wilson as “good” and “solid” since he would usually treat her and confide in her like if she was his mother. She disclosed that one time Wilson had told her that he was willing to end the relationship with his reputed wife.
“We share a good relationship but since she come this whole system change. He don’t hide nothing from me. He would come and tell me everything ‘Ode me aint able with this relationship no more, me aint able live home’, so I tell he ‘you gat to do what you gat to do’. He never use to abuse she is she used to gat he how she want he”, Wray asserted.
Wilson’s father, Gladwin Wilson who resides in the lower flat of the building said that he left the home early yesterday morning for work. When this newspaper spoke to him he said that he was still uncertain as to what led to his son’s stabbing and that he was notified of the fatal incident by his neighbour.
“What I heard is that this morning around seven thirty to eight o’clock my son was stabbed by his girlfriend. My neighbour called and said ‘come to your house that your son has been stabbed’. I heard that he was looking for help and it was my neighbour that came out and helped him”, the father added.
