Two Corentyne brothers were yesterday remanded to prison after they were charged with the killing of a Dukestown teenager who was chopped about his body on Monday.
Rokeel Gordon, 21, and Zeikeel Gordon, 24, both labourers of Lot 27 Dukestown, Corriverton appeared at the New Amsterdam Magistrate’s Court before Magistrate Renita Singh where they were charged jointly with the offence of murder committed on Keon Byass, 18 of Lot 19 Dukestown, Corriverton.
The duo was not required to plead to the indictable charge and was remanded to prison.
They will return to the Springlands Magistrate’s Court on May 18 for report.
The deceased’s aunt, Bridget Byass, 48, had told Stabroek News that on Monday Byass left home around 8.30 am to head to a tailor at Number 77 Village, Corentyne.
However, while he was returning home he was attacked. “He just drop off the jeans and he coming back home and these two boys wait for he and they ambush he”, she had said.
Byass sustained serious chop injuries to his back and left arm. According to the woman, she was later told that he made several attempts to escape during the attack. “They just run and start to chop him with cutlasses. He run a little way in the street trying to reach home and he fall down.”
Byass succumbed on Tuesday at the New Amsterdam Public Hospital just before 9 am to the injuries he sustained.
The aunt had also explained that her nephew had an old grievance with the two brothers who are from the same village. “Every time they see him they have a problem. It’s a old grievance from school, he use to live with his mother, and he came and live with us and the very first time they trouble him he was already living with me and he said it was a school days thing.”
According to the aunt, the assailants had attacked the teenager twice in the past and during both instances he sustained injuries. During the first attack some two years ago, she said he sustained an injury to his wrist which stopped him from carrying out difficult tasks.
She said that both matters were reported to the police but to their knowledge, no arrest was made.
