A 37-year-old trades­man was stabbed to death by a rel­a­tive on Sun­day night dur­ing an ar­gu­ment over a card game. Po­lice said around 11.30 pm, Ker­ry Lash­ley, of En­ter­prise, Ch­agua­nas, was play­ing cards with friends and rel­a­tives at his broth­er's home, Good­wood Road, Ch­agua­nas. Re­ports said dur­ing the game, Lash­ley put his boots on the ta­ble and his fel­low play­ers ob­ject­ed. Af­ter a heat­ed ar­gu­ment, Lash­ley left the house and re­turned about five min­utes lat­er with a cut­lass. His broth­er, Nes­ta Mitchell, 31, in­ter­vened and tried to dis­arm Lash­ley and quell the dis­tur­bance.

Eye­wit­ness­es told in­ves­ti­ga­tors Lash­ley tried to chop Mitchell. A woman in­ter­vened. The woman, in her late 20s, al­so of En­ter­prise, re­port­ed­ly grabbed a knife from the kitchen and stabbed Lash­ley sev­er­al times. She ran off, leav­ing the weapon be­hind. A team of po­lice from the Ch­agua­nas CID, led by In­spec­tor Wayne Lawrence, ar­rived sev­er­al min­utes lat­er and took Lash­ley to the Ch­agua­nas Health Fa­cil­i­ty. Doc­tors pro­nounced him dead on ar­rival. Po­lice searched the En­ter­prise area for the sus­pect but she re­mained at large up to late yes­ter­day. The mur­der toll for the year stood at 178 up to late yes­ter­day. Supt John­ny Abra­ham, Cpls For­ge­nie and Ja­cob vis­it­ed the scene. Sgt Ma­haraj, of the Re­gion Two Homi­cide Bu­reau of In­ves­ti­ga­tions, is prob­ing Lash­ley's mur­der.