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Jul 22, 2014 News
By Romila Boodram
Less than 24 hours after two gruesome murders in the city, another was recorded, this time at Plantain
Walk, Klien Pouderoyen, West Bank Demerara.
Around 22:00 hrs on Sunday, Curtis McKinnon, a father of four, was allegedly stabbed to death by his reputed wife of five years.
McKinnon was pronounced dead on arrival at the West Demerara Regional Hospital shortly after he was rushed there by neighbours.
Police said, that investigations so far have revealed that the Guyana Water Inc. (GWI)’s Supervisor and his reputed wife, Nicola Joseph, were involved in an argument during which she allegedly fatally stabbed him in the neck.
Joseph has been arrested and is in police custody assisting with investigations.
According to a senior police source, the wife claimed that she went to the National Stadium on Sunday to watch the CPL game when her husband called and the two had an argument over the phone.
She alleged that the father of her two children told her that she was disrespectful before ending the call.
“She said that he turned off his phone and when she went home the two of them had a heated argument. She said that he slapped her three times and she went into the kitchen and picked up a knife and stabbed him to the neck,” the police source said.
After committing the act, the woman called her husband’s relatives and neighbours and begged them to transport him to the hospital. She turned herself into the Vreed-en-Hoop Station soon after.
The source said that while being interrogated, the 34-year-old woman was crying continuously and claimed that she wished she could reverse time.
The dead man’s brother, Kevin McKinnon, said that he had just arrived home and was preparing to go to bed when he received a private call from his sister-in-law.
“She tell me that she just stab my brother and that she was going to the Station and that I should go to the hospital,” the brother said. He added by the time he got to the hospital, his brother was already dead.
At the home, yesterday, family members of the now dead man said that his killer was always a jealous person. They claimed that the woman refused to allow McKinnon’s daughter from another relationship to visit her father.
“That woman is wicked. Whenever his daughter wanted to see him, she had to go to his workplace and they had to keep the visit secret because she doesn’t like this girl,” a relative said.
Curtis McKinnon was described as a quiet person who preferred to walk away from problems rather than face them. One of his colleagues described him as a “lover and not a fighter.”
Shebekie McKinnon said that only recently her father told her that he would never hit a woman. The teenager described her father as a quiet and loving person.
“He was a really nice person. Recently, he extended his home so that her four children from another relationship could move in with them,” the daughter said.
The GWI employee leaves to mourn his four children and five siblings.
Meanwhile, early on Sunday, a jilted man stabbed two male commercial sex workers to death before dousing himself with petrol and setting himself alight.
Reports are that the man, Samuel Bristol, 31, vented his rage on the two male sex workers, Carlyle Sinclair and Jason Samuels, after he had been “dumped” by their friend, who is also a male sex worker.
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