Two weeks after he ran away from the psychiatric ward of the San Fernando General Hospital, a Marabella man stabbed his childhood friend to death yesterday.
Anderson Babwah, 24, and the suspect grew up like brothers, his mother Angela Regis said yesterday.
Babwah was stabbed several times and died while undergoing emergency treatment at the San Fernando General Hospital.
Babwah was one of five people killed in a span of less than 24 hours between Thursday night and yesterday evening, taking the toll for the year to 452.
Recalling the last moments she spent with her son, Regis, a mother of six, said around 6.30 am she called her son on the phone to wake him up.
She said Babwah, who ran a mini mart opposite their home at New Haven Avenue, had a job interview yesterday morning.
When he came across to the mini mart, she said they had a normal conversation.
“We were talking. We say God bless this day, today is a good day it will be successful and nice because he had an interview. We hug up, normal thing.”
She said after a few minutes the suspect called him and he went to meet him.
“He was going to start the car to take it out the yard. A little while after I heard bawling,” said Regis, who recalled hearing Babwah’s girlfriend shouting, “’No, no, stop that.’”
Regis said when she came out she saw her son bleeding on the ground. She heard the suspect say, “’Who next from around here.’”
Regis, his girlfriend and sister then rushed Babwah to the hospital in a car. She was told his lungs
got punctured.
Describing her son as a loving and helpful child, Regis said he had a great future ahead of him. She said the suspect, who lived on the same street, only recently started tripping off.
“I done forgive he for that already,” said Regis.
The suspect has been arrested. Investigations are continuing.