Murdered Guyanese woman was constantly abused – relatives claim

…‘He always beat her up when he went home high’

Just hours after a Queens couple rang in the New Year, the wife became the city’s first murder victim of 2018 – and her abusive husband hanged himself from a tree in a city park.
The New York Daily News reported Police sources as saying on Monday that authorities were investigating the deaths as a murder-suicide after the bodies were discovered about three hours apart on New Year’s Day.

Stacy Singh, the 26-year-old mother of two small children, was stabbed repeatedly in the back and left face-down in the couple’s Richmond Hill home on 103rd Avenue, near 113th Street, according to Police sources. Singh is a Guyanese who hails from Novar, Mahaicony, East Coast Demerara.
A knife was found near her body when Police arrived at about 14:00h.
Her hard-partying husband, Vinny Loknath, 46, committed suicide just after 11:00h in Forest Park, about one and a half miles from the murder scene, sources said. He was found hanging from a tree in the park.
Loknath “was very abusive to her,” the dead woman’s brother-in-law Romain Shaw, told the New York Daily News. “She stayed with him no matter what because they had two kids together. She was hoping for him to change, but he never did.
“He’s such a coward.”
According to Shaw, Loknath was drinking heavily and using cocaine when family members gathered on New Year’s Eve at a Queens restaurant.
“He was so drunk, so very drunk,” said Shaw. “He always beat her up when he went home high.”
A neighbour said the couple fought constantly, recalling one incident that ended with the battered wife leaving their home in an ambulance.
“The Cops are always there,” the neighbour was quoted by the New York Daily News as saying. “They were always having big fights. But she still came back to him.” The couple has a five-year-old son and a one-year-old daughter now left parentless.
“Stacy was a very sweet person,” said Shaw. “She was a very generous, caring person. She loved her children very much, spent every penny on them. They were her world.”
The victim’s family went to the house on Monday evening, with the woman’s sister collapsing upon arrival. The neighbour described Loknath as a construction worker often seen sitting on the front step of the house, smoking cigarettes and drinking beer.
This killing marked the second consecutive year that a Guyanese has been the city’s first murder in the Queens precinct.
On January 1, 2017, 31-year-old Ricky Kalisaran of Klein Pouderoyen, West Bank Demerara, was shot dead during an attempted robbery on 124th Street, South Richmond Hill, Queens, near Liberty Avenue. He had travelled to the US to attend his grandmother’s funeral.
Kalisaran was shot once to his back by one of the gun-toting bandits and left to die in front of a nightclub on 124th Street. Meanwhile, his brother, Michael Kalisaran, 25, a resident of the US, was shot to his abdomen but when the bullet exit his body, it caused severe damage to a lung and kidney.