Stabbed man dies with outstretched hand pleading for help

By Anesta Henry

Residents of St Matthias, Christ Church, say the killing of 28-year-old Tremaine Kemar Schavor Hinds on Sunday night, was a cold-blooded act that should not have taken place.

Hinds’ relatives at his Pleasant Hall Land home were too distraught to comment on the death of their loved one but other neighbours, still shocked at the incident, declared that the young man did not deserve to die so tragically.

When Barbados TODAY visited the St Matthias housing area where Hinds was killed, a stone’s throw away from his home, one resident said, “That is cold-blooded murder. He is a homer. He is from out here. He belongs to St Matthias. That should have never happen on the whole. He shouldn’t
get kill at all.

“Them kill he like a dog. He get killed cruel. All he mother could do was come down here and sit down on the sidewalk. He get kill like a dog on his mother’s birthday,” the outraged resident lamented.

The resident described Hinds as an individual who “did not interfere with people unless people interfere with him”, and one who was always willing to lend a helping hand to others and quick to share a joke.

“Yes he would get in things, but that shouldn’t escalate to nothing so. He didn’t even get the chance to defend himself. But people do people in their neighbourhood things and can’t go outside and do things to other people,” the resident said, indicating that they were afraid to go into details about what led to the altercation.

The resident added: “All I could say is that I see a crowd and I say run. I run and went inside and shut the doors. People start screaming out. You could imagine how that scene went down then.”

Another resident lamented that she did not get any sleep last night because the sight of Hinds gasping, unable to speak, stretching out his hand, and lying helplessly on the ground, has made it difficult for her to close her eyes.

“It had me shocked. I did so traumatised then. I ain’t sleep yet. I don’t even know how I will go to work. It got you feeling funny.

“He was out here up to last week making jokes. He was working clearing ash from the road and he went to work up to yesterday morning,” the resident said.

Barbados TODAY understands that as residents waited for an ambulance to arrive, a neighbour who has some form of training in the medical field tested Hinds’ pulse which “was too low for him to make it”.

“He died with his hand out. You could see he wanted help. All he did was turn his head from one side to the next and then he took his last breath,” the resident lamented.

In an effort to bury the reminder of the scene, residents threw volcanic ash on the bloodied
area where Hinds took his last breath.

On the verge of tears, another resident who indicated that they have been living in the area for over 50 years, said: “This is one of the saddest things that ever happen out here.

“He would pass here and shout me and I would shout him. When I passing the block he would just shout me and I would shout him or sometime I would stand up and give him a little talk as a mother, because he old enough to be my son. So this incident has left the neighbourhood shocked.

“I cannot imagine what his mother is feeling today. But you know what, to God be the glory great things He has done,” one resident said.

Police said Hinds who was involved in an altercation with a group of men, sustained a number of injuries to the body and was subsequently pronounced dead on the spot by a doctor.

At least one other person was injured during the incident and was taken to the Queen Elizabeth Hospital (QEH) with non life threatening injuries.

Police are asking anyone with information to please contact the Hastings/Worthing Police Station at 430-7614/7615,
Police Emergency at 211 or Crime Stoppers at 1-800-8477.

(anestahenry@barbadostoday.bb)