A weekend of bloody violence at different public events in various parts of the country rocked the Spice Isle over the last weekend.
One of those incidents resulted in the death of a 21-year old bus conductor from Darbeau, St. George's, Akim Cox.
Cox was stabbed on Friday night at about 11:00 p. m. in the vicinity of the Melville Street Fish Market during the weekly Happy Hour Lime.
His death has brought the murder rate for the year to eight.
The post mortem conducted on Cox's body determined that the cause of death was as a result of a single stab wound to the chest that punctured the heart.
Boca resident, Brandon Casimir, 26 has been charged with the murder.
A police insider dismissed claims that the Criminal Investigation Department (CID) encountered difficulty in being able to make an arrest due to the large number of persons who were participating in the Happy Hour Lime at the time of the incident.
The police officer who spoke to GRENADA TODAY on condition that he was not identified said that the lawmen were able to gather valuable information which sent them quickly into action.
He indicated that three hours after the incident the investigators were able to detain a suspect at Beausejour, St. George's who was questioned about the incident.
However, the suspect was released the following day, Sunday when CID Officers acting on other information received picked up Casimir in the St. George North-east area.
The initial suspect, Damion Mitchell confirmed to GRENADA TODAY that at about 2:00 a.m. on Saturday he was detained by CID Officers while at home.
Mitchell admitted that he was at the Happy Hour Lime but did not see who did the stabbing. He said that while he was dancing to the music being played, Cox fell on him.
"It was only when the blood started to pitch out people got to know he (Cox) got stabbed," he said.
According to Mitchell who is also a bus conductor, the police took away his clothes that were stained with Cox's blood.
"I co-operated with them (and) they locked me up... They questioned me in CID... I gave them the statement but they believed that I was lying for them because they had me as a criminal," he said.
Mitchell stated that when the officers released him, the blood-stained clothes was returned to him to take home.
The murder-accused made his first court appearance on Tuesday at the Number One St. George's Magistrate's Court unrepresented.
Presiding Magistrate, Jerry Seales adjourned the case to May 23 and instructed Casimir to find himself a lawyer by that time.
Seales also asked Chief Police Prosecutor Vanney Curwen to summons all of the seven witnesses since he will start the case at the next sitting.
Hours following the Melville Street killing, a 27-year old man of Grand Anse, St. George's, Kimani Mitchell was chopped at the popular Wall Street area in the south of the island.
According to a Press Release coming from the Public Relations Department of the Royal Grenada Police Force (RGPF), Mitchell left the St. George's General Hospital against the advice of medical personnel attending to him, and is not co-operating with the police.
Another chopping incident was recorded in St. Andrew's early Sunday morning.
Emron Peter, 25, of Tivoli, St. Andrew's received a chop wound to the hand that severed his wrist during another public event.
Police Officers of the Eastern Division are seeking Zowarde Pancho to assist them with their investigations.
The final chopping incident of the weekend took place in the vicinity of The Village Entertainment Complex in Beausejour on Sunday night following a bingo.
One person has been hospitalised and up to the time of going to press on Tuesday, a suspect had been taken into police custody. Both persons received chop wounds to the body.
Badly wounded and in critical condition at the St. George's General Hospital is Allan Ross, a bus operator on the Brizan to St. George's Route while Kim Phillip from The Fence in Happy Hill is assisting police with the investigations into that chopping incident.
