Teen stabbed and chopped to death

- having a sharp knife and cutlass

….one suspect surrenders, while other on the run

A 17- year- old lad of Lot 75 ‘B’ Number 70 Village, Corriverton, lost his life on Sunday after he tried to save his stepfather from being badly beaten by two men in the area. Dead is Sasenarine ‘Suraj’ Persaud, an aspiring mechanic. 

He was allegedly stabbed and chopped by two men, believed to have been deported a few years ago from the United States.

Their only names given for the suspects are ‘Sham’, 30 and ‘Chris’, 38, two brothers. ‘Sham’ operates a barber shop in front of his house while ‘Chris’ is unemployed.

Police at the Springlands Police Station refused to release the men’s full names but a Wanted Bulletin for ‘Sham’ is expected shortly since he has gone into hiding. ‘Chris’ has since surrendered, but not after cutting his throat. He has since been admitted to the New Amsterdam Hospital where he is under police guard.

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Persaud’s step-father, Notan ‘Narresh’ Persaud Roopnarine, 42, was heading home when the two men, who were having a weekend barbeque at their Number 70 Public Road residence, approached him and the three began to have a conversation.

A sharp knife

Cutlass

Roopnarine, who could not remember much of what happened since he was intoxicated, said that the men started a heated argument with him and then took him in their yard and started to “beat him up”.
Young Persaud, who was performing an errand for his mother, on seeing the men beating up his stepfather, approached the fight and tried to intervene. The men turned on Persaud and, having a sharp knife and cutlass in their possession, allegedly stabbed and chopped the young man.
His mother, Vijaiyantimala ‘Mala’ Somai, 39, was inconsolable when Kaieteur News caught up with her and Roopnarine at the Springlands Police Station late Monday afternoon.
“Me send me son to buy a pack coil (Sunday) night around 7:30 and when he go and come back, I sent him to another shop and he went…and when he go he saw his uncle and them boys arguing (Roopnarine) and he go and tried to hold his uncle to put him in a car to come home (since the uncle was drunk)”.
She added, “He see them boys beating him (his stepfather) and he go over the road”.
Roopnarine, recounting what he could remember of the incident said, “Me drunk, drunk, drunk…me stopped the car..and me son came to carry me home…After me and them boys got a little argument, he came out for his mommy to buy coil. The chaps started to beat me up and ‘Sham’ slapped me on me ears until me had blackout”.

The boy’s mother said that ‘Sham’ “give me son one cuff and he held him with his hand and he dragged him and carried him in the yard and he fired one chop, and he threw my son down on the ground. And then me run to meet my son and then ‘Sham’ ran with the cutlass and put it behind the step and me run and me hug me son and asked him why he chopped my son– my son didn’t do you anything–and I asked him to help me pick him up”.
‘Sham’, she stated, refused and “after that me go down and me hold me son on he mouth and turned him and then he shake his head and I saw a lot of blood on him and I put him down back and started to holler for my brother and nephew and they came and took him out of the yard”.
Persaud was chopped across his abdomen; he was stabbed before he was chopped. He was rushed to the Skeldon Hospital where he was pronounced dead on arrival.
The boy’s mother added that her son and the two suspects “had no wrong with each other” and “he does go and cut his hair and them does be little friends and talk and he and nobody ever get any wrong”.
“Me grow him up from little baby; me does bathe him, powder him– he does sleep on this one hand and he sister does sleep on the other hand–”, the boy’s stepfather stated.

His mother said that her son was a “very quiet, very good child to me”, before she collapsed in tears. “He was so loving and friendly– all me story me does go and tell him– anything bother me– anything worry me, I does call he and tell he ‘babe, so and so story does bother me’…and we two sit down and see movies–until 11 o’clock in the night and then we go to bed…He was very kind and good to me, never fought with anyone”.

“My son get killed for one pack coil”, the wailing woman stated. “Better I did take the mosquito bite before me take this hurt!I feel so hurt!”
Persaud is survived by three siblings: Kamo, 20; Shivanie, 11; and Rocky, 8.
Persaud’s body remains at the Skeldon Hospital Mortuary, where it is awaiting a Post- mortem examination.

Tuesday, May 1, 2012