A distraught Jacqueline Murray looks at the area where her friend Anthony Curtis Greene, was found dead at an old NP gas station in Point Fortin on Friday.
RISHI RAGOONATH
Before Anthony Curtis “Fighter” Greene bled to death at an old NP Gas Station in Point Fortin on Friday night, he told his former girlfriend that he was leaving to meet his mother.
Greene's mother died last February from COVID-19.
“You know he told me he was going to meet his mother when the assailant came to him. All my neighbours are watching me because I am talking the truth,” Jacqueline Murray said at the murder scene on Saturday.
Blood remained at the pump of the defunct gas station in Point Ligoure, where Point Fortin police found Greene's body after responding to a report of a wounding. They reported that Greene, 52, of Spring Trace, Warden Road, had an altercation with two men who threw bottles at him. As the incident escalated, one fatally stabbed the Point Borough Corporation worker. One of his friends told Guardian Media that Greene was among a group of people drinking alcohol in the area behind the gas station.
His former girlfriend, Jacqueline Murray, said he was liming in the area and bought her a drink before the quarrel broke out. Murray said Greene walked away, but his killer pursued. She said although Greene was drunk and cursed, he did not attack anyone.
“Now, everybody is watching me. I am not going to lie. I was here. Not I alone was there. All my neighbours, so we know everything that is going on here because I am not threatened. I am still fearful for my life because the one that did him that is a child, and we are neighbours around here.”
Police did not arrest anyone up to yesterday evening.
Greene got his nickname Fighter because he bred the fish during his younger days. His sister Kathleen said he was never a violent or bad person but spent over a decade at the Carrera Convict Prison for cocaine offences.
Kathleen had just returned from a group meeting when she got a call.
“My niece called me and said: Aunty Kathleen, Fighter, somebody chopped him up, and he is by the gas station. So I went down there. When I went, I saw him lying down there. He was all in blood. The police were there, but they did not want me to go close to the body,” Kathleen said.
Greene was not staying at home recently but with a friend in the area.
Kathleen said Green was wearing garden boots he used when cutting grass in people's yards. She could not say what caused the altercation, only that he was always borrowing money from people.
