A 48-year-old labourer was stabbed to death during a confrontation at Nigg Village, Corentyne, on Saturday afternoon, and police are now searching for a 17-year-old suspect who reportedly fled the scene.
The dead man has been identified as Baboolall Carter of Nigg New Housing Area. The suspect, a teenage labourer known as “Fat Boy”, allegedly escaped shortly after the incident near the Nigg Post Office along the Corentyne Highway.
The victim’s body was later discovered in a nearby trench with multiple wounds.
Resident Narinedat Deodat said he arrived at the scene shortly after the incident and saw residents pulling the injured man from the trench.
“At first I thought it was an animal, but when I got closer I saw it was a man covered in blood,” Deodat said.
The suspect’s mother, Khemrajee Ramcharran, has since appealed publicly for her son to surrender, saying she has not heard from him since the incident.
Ramcharran said she learnt of the stabbing through a telephone call on Saturday evening.
“A girl called me and told me my son had gotten into a problem with a man and stabbed him,” she said.
According to Ramcharran, she was later told the confrontation began after her son went to inflate a bicycle tyre near a car wash.
She said witnesses told her the victim rode past her son, turned back, and struck him several times in the face before the stabbing occurred. A police officer was reportedly nearby at the time.
“The policeman was washing his car at the car wash. He ran after my son but did not catch him,” she said.
Ramcharran said officers later visited her home seeking information about her son’s whereabouts. She added that she has been contacting relatives and searching for him since Saturday.
“I just want him to come out and surrender himself,” she said.
Investigations into the fatal stabbing are ongoing.
