RAD­HI­CA DE SIL­VA

Truck dri­ver Ronald Marchan left his home to do an hon­est day’s work but nev­er re­turned home. He was stabbed by a man eight times as he de­liv­ered goods to a gro­cery in Point Fortin on Wednes­day.

He suc­cumbed to his in­juries at hos­pi­tal.

Marchan’s as­sailant lat­er sur­ren­dered to po­lice and hand­ed over a blood-stained fold­ing knife, which was al­leged­ly used in the at­tack. He re­port­ed­ly ad­mit­ted to stab­bing Marchan say­ing he be­came en­raged dur­ing an ar­gu­ment over a parked truck.

Po­lice said Marchan, 42 of Mo­ta Trace, Tabaquite was stabbed in the chest, ab­domen, and up­per arm on Wednes­day evening while de­liv­er­ing goods to Per­sad’s The Food King Su­per­mar­ket.

In­ves­ti­ga­tors said Marchan ar­rived at Tan­ner Street, Point Fortin around 7 pm dri­ving a re­frig­er­at­ed truck to de­liv­er goods. He stayed in the dri­ver’s seat while his co-work­ers ex­it­ed the ve­hi­cle.

Around 7:50 pm, the sus­pect ap­proached Marchan, ask­ing him to move the truck. Marchan ex­plained the truck’s en­gine need­ed to re­main on for re­frig­er­a­tion pur­pos­es, which led to an ar­gu­ment.

The sus­pect left but re­turned 10 min­utes lat­er, re­sum­ing the con­fronta­tion. Po­lice said Marchan opened the dri­ver’s door dur­ing the al­ter­ca­tion, and the sus­pect stabbed him mul­ti­ple times be­fore walk­ing away.

Su­per­mar­ket em­ploy­ees took Marchan to the Point Fortin Hos­pi­tal, where he died while re­ceiv­ing treat­ment.

CCTV footage cap­tured the at­tack, and in­ves­ti­ga­tors are re­view­ing the video as part of their in­quiries.

When con­tact­ed yes­ter­day, Marchan’s com­mon-law wife An­drea Je­re­my said she was too dis­traught to speak.

“This is a re­al shock to us, I can­not be­lieve this hap­pened,” she said. 

Po­lice said an au­top­sy will be done on Marchan’s body on Mon­day at the Foren­sic Sci­ence Cen­tre.