Sascha Wil­son

A broth­er­ly re­la­tion­ship be­tween two blood rel­a­tives end­ed trag­i­cal­ly, af­ter one killed the oth­er dur­ing a dis­pute in Moru­ga on Thurs­day night.

An­ton Bac­chus, 44, al­so known as Gary, a se­cu­ri­ty guard, was stabbed four times by a 41-year-old man near the Peo­ple’s Choice Bar at Ed­ward Trace, Basse Terre Vil­lage.

Bac­chus died short­ly be­fore 2 am while un­der­go­ing treat­ment at the San Fer­nan­do Gen­er­al Hos­pi­tal. Stab wounds were ob­served in the chest area and on both arms.

The tragedy, how­ev­er, has left rel­a­tives in shock and plunged the close-knit com­mu­ni­ty in­to mourn­ing.

Bac­chus and the sus­pect both have three chil­dren and lived at Ed­ward Trace.

Vil­lager Jen­ny Mo­hammed, who op­er­ates a par­lour, said she had re­turned home af­ter at­tend­ing the fu­ner­al of an el­der­ly res­i­dent when Bac­chus and the sus­pect came over to find out about how the res­i­dent died. She said they ap­peared in­tox­i­cat­ed.

Jenny Emmanuel weeps at she recalls her last moments with her friend Anton Bacchus, 44, who was stabbed and killed on Thursday at Edward Trace, Basse Terre, Moruga.

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Af­ter ex­plain­ing what was told to her about the res­i­dent’s demise, she said Bac­chus and the sus­pect be­gan ar­gu­ing about the cir­cum­stances sur­round­ing her death.

Em­manuel said her hus­band even­tu­al­ly told them to leave for “dis­re­spect­ing” their home.

When they left her home, how­ev­er, she said they were “hug­ging up go­ing down the road.”

Short­ly af­ter, she heard a scream and some­one said the sus­pect had stabbed Bac­chus. A res­i­dent took Bac­chus to the Princes Town Health Fa­cil­i­ty in his pri­vate ve­hi­cle.

While Em­manuel had a good re­la­tion­ship with both men, she con­sid­ered Bac­chus as a son. De­scrib­ing him as a very good per­son, she said Bac­chus was not in­volved in bac­cha­nal and con­fu­sion.

Bac­chus’ old­er cousin Mar­tin Moli­no said the in­ci­dent had them con­fused, hurt and in shock.

“I nev­er hear them (Bac­chus and the sus­pect) quar­rel. No dis­pute, noth­ing. I nev­er know them quar­relling, noth­ing. I tell you all of we used to lime to­geth­er. We hunt to­geth­er, we lime to­geth­er, we cook to­geth­er, every­thing, I know that every­body good. Is a re­al shock to me and the com­mu­ni­ty,” he lament­ed.

Martin Molino speaks about his cousin Anton Bacchus, who was killed in Moruga on Thursday.

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De­scrib­ing Bac­chus and the sus­pect as bud­dies, Moli­no said they have no idea what trig­gered this dead­ly in­ci­dent.

“Two of them al­ways to­geth­er lim­ing and drink­ing. It hurt me re­al bad. It is some­thing I will nev­er for­get as long as I live,” he said.

Of­fi­cers of the Homi­cide Bu­reau of In­ves­ti­ga­tions Re­gion 3 are in­ves­ti­gat­ing.

A bunch of flowers is placed at the spot where Anton Bacchus was stabbed on Thursday at Edward Trace, Basse Terre, Moruga.

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