Ghanaian stabbed to death in US robbery attack

A Ghanaian named Hayes Osei Dennis, was last Thursday July 19, 2012 stabbed to death during a robbery attack in Washington DC, according to US Police authorities.

According to a Washington Post publication, Hayes Osei, 60, was supposed to close the taxi repair shop, Gold Star Cab, he managed at 6 p.m. and get home to dine with a visiting in-law, who was heading home to Ghana. But for some reason, Hayes Osei lingered.

Osei’s wife at 6:45 p.m. on the same Thursday called him on phone and her husband told her he “would be home soon,” the publication reported citing Osei’s brother-in-law.

Police in Washington D.C. said about 15 minutes after he spoke to his wife, Osei, who emigrated from Ghana a decade ago, was stabbed to death during the robbery.

D.C. Police Lt. Robert Alder of the homicide unit confirmed that Dennis was killed in a robbery outside the shop, reports the Washington Post.

“We are in the process of retrieving different surveillance tapes from the area,” Alder said declining to provide additional details of the attack.

Narrating what actually happened, Hayes Osei’s brother-in-law, Osei Antwi said he spoke to two workers who were there during the attack.

Antwi said the workers told him that Hayes Osei was standing outside when a man asked him for water. “Dennis told him to go in and help himself,” Antwi said. “When he came out, he threatened him with a big knife and said, ‘Give me all the money you have’.”

The workers told Antwi that Dennis gave the man $20 he had in his pocket, turned to walk away and was stabbed twice, once in the body and again in the neck.

He rushed back to pick up Dennis’s wife, a nurse, and they went to George Washington University Hospital, where they said the victim had been taken.

But when they arrived, Antwi said staff sent them back to police, who told them Dennis had died.

Hayes Osei is said to have left behind seven children, six boys and one girl between ages 4 and 20.

By Ekow Quandzie