Ak­ile Si­mon

?A 56-year-old Barataria busi­ness­man was stabbed to death dur­ing what po­lice be­lieve was a rob­bery at his home be­tween Tues­day night and yes­ter­day morn­ing. Hen­rick Fos­ter Lewis was found with stab wounds about the body at his busi­ness place, lo­cat­ed down­stairs his home. Of­fi­cers of the North East­ern Di­vi­sion found the body.

Lewis, who lived at the cor­ner of Third Av­enue and Eleventh Street, op­er­at­ed an ap­pli­ance and cell­phone store on the premis­es. In­ves­ti­gat­ing of­fi­cers had ini­tial­ly re­spond­ed to a re­port that Lewis, a for­mer TSTT em­ploy­ee, had been kid­napped. Ac­cord­ing to po­lice, around 3 am, a res­i­dent saw three men steal­ing house­hold ap­pli­ances from Lewis' apart­ment and raised an alarm.

The men fled in a wait­ing ve­hi­cle, leav­ing be­hind thou­sands of dol­lars worth of house­hold ap­pli­ances, in­clud­ing a 38-inch flat screen tele­vi­sion set. When po­lice of­fi­cers ar­rived at the scene, they found that the door to Lewis' of­fice and store­room opened and his body on the floor.

An au­top­sy con­duct­ed at the Foren­sic Sci­ence Cen­tre re­vealed he died from mul­ti­ple stab wounds to the head, face, chest, neck and up­per body. A team of of­fi­cers from the North East­ern Di­vi­sion­al Task Force head­ed by Sgt Roger Alexan­der went in search of a sus­pect but he could not be found. Of­fi­cers be­lieve Lewis was work­ing in his of­fice when he was con­front­ed by a rob­ber.

They al­so be­lieve the he put up a strug­gle with his as­sailant. A team of of­fi­cers led by ASP Williams, Sgts Stew­art and Ramjohn, Cpls Ho­sein and Fi­garo and PC Mo­hammed vis­it­ed the scene and are con­tin­u­ing in­ves­ti­ga­tions.