SURENDRA Nauth, called “Shawn, 29, of Albion Front, Corentyne, Berbice, was in the wee hours of Sunday stabbed to death while at a wedding celebration at Williamsburg Village.A tearful Anita Evans, his wife, said the incident occurred at about 00:30 hrs, when the suspect, whom she identified as one “Shandy”, was confronted after he was seen slashing the tyre of a car belonging to her brother.

“The girl that was sitting in the car see when he slash the tyre and she come out and tell Totaram (Evens’s brother), and he went up to Shandy and ask he if he slash the tyre and he said ‘no’ but another guy tell he ‘yes’, I see you slash it too’. The guy (Shandy) just tek out he knife and bore Totaram on he face.”

Evans explained that after seeing what was happening, her husband went to intervene and was stabbed in the abdomen. He was taken to the Port Mourant Hospital, where he succumbed to his injuries.

According to a police press release, Nauth and his brother-in-law Totaram Bhola were involved in an argument with a man who slashed a tyre of their motor vehicle.
Bhola has been admitted to hospital.

The suspect, who was recently released from prison, is on the run. He had served a sentence on a charge of wounding. Police are continuing their investigations.