A 21-year-old Cuban national was brutally killed on Friday morning in an attack allegedly carried out by her stepfather at their apartment on Pike Street, Kitty, Georgetown.
Dead is Davely Morales. Her mother, 38-year-old Milaysi Rodrigues, also a Cuban national, was seriously injured and remains hospitalised.
The Guyana Police Force (GPF) reported that the incident occurred at about 07:00 hrs at Lot 56 Pike Street, where Morales lived with her mother, nine-year-old sister, and stepfather, Wispriey Alfonso, 40.
The family had arrived in Guyana about a month ago and had been renting an apartment together.
According to the police report, a tenant in the building heard a woman screaming and went to investigate. He told investigators that he observed the door to apartment one wide open and Alfonso standing over Rodrigues, attacking her with a chopper while she lay on her back in the living room. Nearby, Morales was seen lying in a pool of blood with chop wounds to her body.
The tenant reported that Morales managed to get up and run from the apartment but collapsed shortly after in the walkway. Alfonso fled the scene immediately after the attack.
Emergency Medical Technicians from the Central Fire Station responded, but Morales was pronounced dead at the scene by a doctor from the Georgetown Public Hospital. Rodrigues was rushed to the hospital with multiple chop wounds and is receiving treatment. Her condition is listed as serious.
Police reported that Morales sustained chop wounds to her hands, the back of her head, and her jaw. Her body was later transported to the Memorial Gardens Funeral Home, where a post-mortem examination is pending.
Alfonso later turned himself in at the Kitty Police Station, still armed with the chopper, which appeared to be stained with blood. He was immediately taken into custody and is assisting with the ongoing investigation.
