Teen stabbed for $50, ‘Sufferer’ shot dead

According to police reports, 18-year-old Murrey was stabbed to death during a fight over an attempt to collect $50 to organise a fete in the area. Officers who responded to a telephone call about Murrey’s death around 10 pm on Friday went to Jack Terrace where they met a middle-aged woman, Gleta Douglas, standing on the roadway in tears and a body in an open plot of land not very far away from her.

Douglas told Sunday Newsday yesterday that Murrey was her grandson, and that he went out hunting with friends on Friday and they had caught an iguana.

“He was just collecting money from everyone to host a fete with his friends,” Douglas said.

She added he had collected less than $50 which he placed under a bottle in a small clearing on a plot of land nearby. “It was then that this man come out and took up the money and ran off, she said. “My grandson pick-up with him and a fight ensued and he was stabbed in his chest and he died shortly after.” Murrey lived with his grandparents and had recently completed his secondary school education.

Douglas said her grandson wanted to hold a fete Friday night and he went out and asked various people in the neighbourhood for funds. “He plan to make everyone happy with a meal and drinks and look how he was killed on the spot for less than $50 which he had collected,” Douglas said.

In a plea for police to apprehend the killer, the grandmother said she knew her son’s assailant was wanted by the police for committing certain crimes.

The Enterprise community has been plagued by many unlawful killings over the past several months and Douglas yesterday appealed to National Security Minister Edmund Dillon to provide more patrol in the area. She said with the wages from working as a labourer with the Community- based Environmental Protection and Enhancement Programme (CEPEP), she took care of her grandson.

In the other incident also on Friday night, Francis’ body was discovered at about 11 pm at the Brasso Animal Breeding Unit, located at Caparo Valley Road. A police report from the Brasso Police Station, stated Francis died from a single gunshot wound to the head.

Responding to a telephone call, PC Ramoutar and PC Badadal from the station visited the scene and conducted enquiries. ASP Ablack is conducting further investigations.

Relatives of Francis remain tightlipped about the murder when approached by Sunday Newsday yesterday, except to say that Francis was a hustler and he was nicknamed “Sufferer”.