Guyanese stabbed to death in Trinidad

(Trinidad Express, Saturday, February 18, 2017) A Guyanese national is Trinidad’s latest murder victim.

Yoel Meshach Mentor, 29, was found stabbed to death in his home at Henderson Street, Chaguanas on Saturday.

Police suspect that Mentor was killed during a dispute with his lover.

A police report said that at around 11.15 a.m. his room mate found him in the living room of their apartment, unresponsive and bleeding from multiple stab wounds to his neck and chest.

Inspector Douglas and officers of the Chaguanas Criminal Investigations Department (CID), as well as Sergeant Ramjag and others of the Homicide Division, Region III responded.

The room-mate said he last saw Mentor alive around 4 a.m. when he was going to the bathroom.

Mentor, a restaurant host,  was pronounced dead at the scene and his body removed for an autopsy on Monday (February 20, 2017) at the Forensic Sciences Centre, St James.