
Plaisance teen stabbed to death
By Navendra Seoraj
Eighteen-year-old Sherwyn Lynch was on Wednesday stabbed to death by a man who is yet to be identified.The teen, who hails from Plaisance, East Coast Demerara, according to his neighbour who wished to remain unidentified, was found face down on the Plaisance Railway Embankment.
Lynch’s neighbour disclosed that, “I was traveling home to Plaisance from UG when suddenly the bus stopped and everyone came out to see a body that was lying face down on the roadside. And when they turn him over I saw it was Sherwyn.”
She said it appeared as though he had suffered three stab wounds on the left side of his body.
Passersby took him to the Georgetown Public Hospital where he was pronounced dead on arrival. Speaking to the Guyana Chronicle his sister, Tomika Solomon said that she was notified of the incident at around 21:00hrs and rushed to the hospital where she confirmed the sad news.
Solomon described her brother as a kind-hearted individual, who had “no problems with people from the neighbourhood and always kept to himself.” Lynch leaves to mourn, his two sisters and brother, as well as his father and uncle.