The man who was discovered dead on the Lusignan Prison Road on Saturday had been knocked off his bicycle and stabbed, CCTV footage revealed.
He was later identified as construction worker, Delon Hendricks, 26, of 91 Sideline Dam Buxton, ECD. An autopsy report disclosed that Hendricks died from haemorrhagic shock due to incised wounds to the neck.
Hendricks’ brother- in-law, Steve Ageday, told Stabroek News that he, Hendricks and a friend left the construction site where they worked at around 6 pm on Saturday after they were paid their wages and were hanging out at a pool shop located in Lusignan.
He said they were all drinking Guinness and playing ‘Super Bet’. According to Ageday, Hendricks had won extra money from playing the ‘Super Bet’ game. Ageday said that he left the pool shop at around 10 pm and headed home on his bicycle as he felt bored. He added that he constantly asked Hendricks to come with him but that he, Hendricks, refused. He eventually left leaving Hendricks and their friend still playing ‘Super Bet’, but not before giving his brother-in-law $20,000 in cash to keep. The next morning Ageday said he enquired of Hendricks but Hendricks’s common law wife, Alexis Ageday, a mother of two, and with a baby on the way told him that she stayed up all night waiting on Hendricks to come home, but he never arrived.
The brother-in-law said he and his family immediately went in search of Hendricks thinking that he had stayed by their friend that night. During the search, Ageday said persons with whom Hendricks was familiar told him that Hendricks had been found the night before with multiple stab wounds to the left side of the neck. Ageday said he and the family then visited the police station and after providing a description of Hendricks, the police took the family to the Memorial Gardens Funeral Home to inspect the still unidentified body. After confirming that the body was indeed Hendricks’, Ageday and family were then taken to the spot where Hendricks’s body was found.
The dead’s man sister-in-law, Sophia Suwarno, related to Stabroek News that they were also informed by the police that CCTV cameras from a church showed Hendricks being struck by an assailant with a piece of wood which knocked him off of his bicycle. Subse-quent frames, as related to Suwarno by the police, showed Hendricks being stabbed in the neck. According to Suwarno, the police said that the blurriness of the video rendered it impossible to identify any of the persons involved in the incident. She said that the police informed the family that Hendricks’s clothes were found scattered along the road with his lunch bowl, and that they, the police, did not find any monies Hendricks was alleged to have had in his possession.
