A fight over a man led to the death of an 18-year-old D’Abadie woman on Thursday. The death of Renuka Maharaj, of Beharry Street, Red Hill, D’Abadie, has now pushed the murder toll to 234 for the year.
By Denyse RennePolice say Maharaj got into an altercation with another woman in a mango field behind her house at around 8.15 pm.
The two began arguing when the other woman allegedly whipped out a knife and stabbed Maharaj repeatedly about the body.
As a bleeding Maharaj fell to the ground, the suspect ran off.
Maharaj was taken to the Eric Williams Medical Sciences Complex at Mt Hope where she died while undergoing emergency surgery.
Residents said they heard screams coming from the field.
A woman is now in police custody and is expected to be charged with murder over this weekend.
The suspect, who lives in the D’Abadie area, was held shortly after the incident during a police exercise led by Sgt Stanley Ramdeen of the Eastern Homicide Bureau.
An autopsy conducted at the Forensic Science Centre yesterday revealed Maharaj died as a result of multiple stab wounds to the head, neck, back and chest.
Homicide detectives spent most of yesterday interviewing the suspect, several family members of the victim, and the man over whom the women were arguing.
Sgt Ramdeen, Cpl Eric Parks, PCs Marvin Pinder, Nada Steele-Williams and Gary Huggins visited the scene yesterday.
