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Jul 22, 2014 News
By Gary Eleazar
A violent killing last evening rocked the normally peaceful Strath Campbell, Mahaicony community, leaving two
without a father.
Dead is Alvy Richmond, 52, who was killed by his sister’s lover, following a heated argument he had in his home that was witnessed by his 11 year-old daughter, Mion.
His killer, who up to press time was identified only as ‘Travis’, a deportee who goes by the alias ‘Yankee,’ was in police custody after he was grabbed and beaten by angry residents following the killing.
Richmond was left dead at the bottom of his back stairs with a knife in his chest. He was removed by undertakers several hours after the incident.
Richmond’s 11 year-old daughter, Mion, told Kaieteur News last evening that her father came home and took out a meal for himself. He was eating and telling her that she “must learn fuh eat greens and suh.”
According to the young lady, her father then informed her that he was going to the washroom but his attacker was already in the washroom at which point in time her father locked the door.
Travis then started banging on the door arguing since her father was not opening the door but his sister, with whom Travis shared a relationship, went to open the door to let him out.
“He come out from the bathroom and then start quarrel up,” said Mion.
The young lady said that her father told him that he is not welcomed at the house, “and then me aunty turn and say is she man, nah quarrel up with me man.”
According to the girl, the woman then turned to her father and admonished him saying that the house was not his and that he had no right to say that her lover was not welcomed there.
The house is owned by another sibling.
Mion said that the two continued their heated argument. Her grandmother attempted to calm them, begging them to stop.
The girl recalled that ‘Travis’ then turned to her grandmother and said “Mom you don’t want me back in here. Am I wrong? Did I do anything wrong?”
She said that her grandmother said to him that he was wrong and that he shouldn’t visit the home anymore since she did not want any further problems.
The little girl said that Yankee then turned to his father and admonished him further, saying that he did not have manners. “And then he start carry on and then he say you touch me back again and you gun see wha gun happen.”
The little girl said that he told her father that should he confront him when out on the road, he was going to see what he was going to do to him.
According to the girl, her aunt with whom the man shared a relationship told him not to leave and called him to fold some clothes but her father objected to him remaining in the house.
“Meh father go up in he face and then he get vex and he pull out he knife from he brief and then he tek the knife and juk it in meh father heart,” according to Mion.
The little girl said that he immediately ran out of the house and her father pursued him but he escaped.
She said that her father then went back upstairs toward her grandmother, came back down the stairs and collapsed at the bottom where he died.
Neighbours who were alerted to the argument and stabbing reportedly grabbed the man and dealt him a sound trashing before handing him over to the police.
When this publication visited the home of the now dead man yesterday, scores of residents had gathered outside his home.
According reports, ‘Travis’ was not a man unknown to issuing threats. Recently he had to be warned by a police rank.
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