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Guyanese man in US auto accident was stabbed
New Jersey, US- On the day East Orange resident Floyd McLean died, he drove his 14-year-old son, Floyd McLean Jr., home from school. Then, while taking a shower, the elder McLean started singing a familiar song he liked, and his 4-year-old daughter sang along out in the hallway. They took turns on the verses,
Floyd Jr. said his father promised another song when he got back later Thursday evening.
“Then he got dressed, he left, and he never came back,” Floyd Jr. said Monday.
Police knocked on the door Thursday night and told the family that the father of six had been killed. McLean, 39, had been a in a car crash on Oraton Parkway by Central Avenue around 7:05 p.m., but before the accident he had been stabbed in the chest, said Kathy Carter, a spokeswoman for the Essex County Prosecutor’s Office.
Paramedics saw a hole in his chest at the scene of the accident and initially thought he had been shot, Carter said. A preliminary autopsy last Friday revealed that the wound was from a stabbing, she said.
McLean, who had five children and a stepson, emigrated from Guyana when he was 11, said his sister Roxanne Cooke of Irvington. He became a United States citizen and was proud of his adopted country, she said.
“My brother was always sharing, always generous when it comes to the kids. He was always thinking of other people,” said Cooke, 40.
McLean used to own and run a small clothing store on Main Street in East Orange, but shut it down last year when rent got too high, said Annette Williams, his wife of 16 years.
For the past year he has been working at Bay State Milling Company, a flour company in Clifton, she said.
When he wasn’t at work, he liked to swim, watch action movies and spend time with his family, said Williams, 40.
It has not yet been determined what McLean was stabbed with, Carter said. Investigators from the prosecutor’s office are also working with the East Orange police department to pinpoint the location of the stabbing.
No arrests have been made and investigators have not yet identified a motive, Carter said. In the meantime, family members said they were waiting for answers – and justice.
“I want this guy to feel the same pain my father went through,” Floyd Jr. said. “In jail you can sleep and relax and be taken care of. They don’t deserve that.”(nj.com)
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