Man kills rival
A bitter dispute over a woman ended around 19.25 hrs yesterday with one man believed stabbed to death and the other in custody after turning up at the Georgetown Public Hospital with cutlass wounds.
Troy Brutus, 31, reportedly collapsed a few yards from his home, located in the West La Penitence area known as ‘The Island,’ from wounds to the groin and abdomen. He was pronounced dead on arrival at the GPHC.
Police said that the alleged killer, accompanied by the woman at the centre of the dispute, turned up shortly after at the GPHC, with what appeared to a chop wound to his head. There are also reports that he sustained a gunshot wound to the leg.
He was subsequently taken into custody. The 36-year-old suspect, who is an Albouystown man known as ‘Nice Time,’ is said to have alleged that Brutus attacked him first.
Reports indicate that Brutus was wounded in Albouystown, but managed to run into West La Penitence, where he collapsed.
A female relative of Troy Brutus said that she was at home when someone said that something had happened to Brutus. She then ran outside and saw Brutus sitting on the roadway and bleeding profusely.
The woman said that it took some 15 minutes for her to stop a vehicle. Eventually, a neighbor transported Brutus to the GPHC, where he succumbed.
According to another relative, Brutus had a relationship with the woman at the centre of the dispute, but then they broke up and the suspect and the woman started a relationship.
But she alleged that Brutus had suggested that the relationship between him and the woman had never ended.
The relative said that the suspect had come to her home in West La Penitence a few days ago and had asked to speak to Brutus. “He said, ‘try talk to he’ (Brutus) and that he (the suspect) don’t want trouble.”
According to the relative, Brutus alleged that the rival later attacked him with a knife that same day.
The woman in the dispute has reportedly stated that she was at home in Albouystown yesterday when the suspect arrived and was bleeding from a head injury. The man reportedly told his lover that Brutus had wounded him. He said nothing about injuring Brutus.
She reportedly only learned that Brutus had been wounded after taking her lover to the GPHC.