One dead following stabbings in the old capital

Lucilla Mortis

Wednesday, April 27, 2011

A man who was known for his trade especially among cyclists was stabbed to death early on Easter Sunday morning during a dispute with the woman he had been intimately involved with over the past few years. Osborne “Fish” Gordon, 50, was at his home at the corner of Central American Boulevard and Coffin Street socializing with another friend but got up saying he was going to buy a stout up the street on Cemetery Road.

That trip from his house, however, took him to the house of his lover, Lucilla Mortis, 48, with whom he got involved in a bitter dispute that morning.  The quarrel ended up at Curassow Street at its junction with Cemetery Road where Mortis allegedly wrestled away a knife from him and stabbed him in the upper left side of the chest.  The wound punctured Gordon’s heart and he died at the scene.  Before the stabbing residents say they heard Mortis screaming for help.

“Fish”, as he was known to his friends and regular customers, spent many years cleaning fish at the Conch Shell Bay fish market, but frequent conflicts at the job site made him turn to a less aggressive means of livelihood.

Police, on Tuesday, officially arrested and charged Mortis with murder in connection with the incident.  She was remanded until May 24th.  She has for quite some time told close friends that she had been going through trying times with Gordon over his habits.  Many believe that it was another of these rifts that ended in death for one and incarceration for the other.

Meanwhile, there another stabbing around 8:30 on Holy Thursday night on the other side of town on Victoria Street where it meets New Road.  There, a fisherman, Elvis Rhamdas, 41, is believed to have been stabbed with a dagger in the middle of his back, neck and forehead over something his attacker believed he had knowledge of.

Rhamdas, who is on life support and paralyzed from neck down, is likely to remain in that condition because of the wound to the neck.  When he was taken to the Karl Heusner Memorial Hospital, the dagger was still lodged in his neck, a wound that doctors had to perform an immediate surgery on to save his life.

Eyewitnesses say that Rhamdas was involved in a confrontation with some men that night and one of them produced the weapon and inflicted the wounds.  Police are still following leads to make an arrest in this incident.

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