There are many questions surrounding the death of a man from Discovery Bay, St Ann who succumbed to a mystery stab wound.
Dead is 69-year-old Dalbert Clarke, otherwise called ‘Delroy’, a retired plumber of Orlando, Florida in the United States of America. Mr Clarke has a home in Dairy Road, Discovery Bay, St. Ann and lived there for months of the year when he was not in the US.
According to the Constabulary Communications Unit (CCU) about 3:00 a.m., on Monday, December 26, Clarke turned up at the Runaway Bay Police Station with a stab wound to the abdomen. He was assisted to the St. Ann’s Bay hospital where he was admitted in serious condition.
The CCU said, “Clarke succumbed to his injuries on Tuesday, January 3.”
Police did not state if Clarke died at home. However reports to the North Coast Times are that Clarke died in the St Ann’s Bay Hospital.
Superintendent of police in charge of St Ann, Gary Francis told the North Coast Times Wednesday, January 4, that police were treating the matter as a death investigation. “We don’t have enough to classify it as a murder,” he said.
North Coast Times can report however that Clarke was stabbed in Brown’s Town at that town’s famous grand market. It is not clear how it happened but there are some reports that Clarke had gone to the Grand Market and apparently had mistakenly gone to someone else’s car. An argument developed and there was some pushing and shoving before Clarke was stabbed.
He managed to get into his car and headed to St Ann’s Bay Hospital in the early hours of Sunday morning, December 25. Apparently he couldn’t make it and stopped at Runaway Bay police station.
However, CCU report had indicated that Clarke came to the police station on Monday, December 26, but family members said that they heard about a stabbing on Grand Market night.
Police were unable to get details from him about what happened.
However friends and family members who visited Clarke over the next few days in hospital were told the story about the Grand Market tussle and stabbing.
They said they were shocked when he died as it appeared he had been mending well.
Police are appealing to the public for information to assist in their investigations.
