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Mar 08, 2014 News
… Wife in custody
A 44-year-old man died yesterday morning at the West Demerara Regional Hospital (WDRH), hours after he reportedly punched a glass window and cut his hand.
Dead is Dennis Harris, a pork-knocker of Lot 1525 Onderneeming, West Bank Demerara. Harris, a father of one died around 01:00hrs yesterday. It is believed that he bled to death from the wound he sustained on his hand.
His reputed wife of seven years Yonette Gumbs was in police custody up to press time following reports that he told a relative before he passed away that the woman was responsible for what had happened to him.
Yesterday, when Kaieteur News visited Harris’s home, his stepdaughter, Sabrina Wray said that the now dead man and her mother left home around 17:50 hrs on Thursday to attend a get-together a short distance from where they reside.
“They left home arguing, and they come back arguing. He and my mother were arguing and they were very abusive to each other. He (Harris) was cutting a joint (marijuana) with a scissors and he take it and point it to my mom’s face and tell her that he will kill her and kill all of us,” Wray stressed.
She explained that her mother somehow managed to push Harris out of the house and closed the door. “She (Gumbs) pushed him out and he push his hand inside the house to prevent her from closing the door, but his hand get squeeze and he pulled out, that’s how come we get to close the door.”
Wray said that her stepfather then became very abusive and threatened to harm them. “When he realized that he can’t get the door open, he punched the glass window and I see when his blood spilled inside the house.”
The young woman explained that after Harris sustained the injury, he visited the home of a relative who lives about four houses away and was taken to the hospital.
“I was so surprised when I hear he died because that is just a cut,” Wray said in disbelief. She explained that her stepfather is very arrogant and would frequently abuse her mother.
The young woman claimed that her mother never made a report to the police station against the man because “they does always make up back and up to last night (Thursday) when they were saying insulting things about each other, I was laughing because they does always make up back.”
Wray posited that her mother met Harris while working as a cook in the interior.
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