A LARGE crowd gathered to have a glimpse of the body of a young hotel employee, who was found dead around 07:00 hrs yesterday morning on a resident’s bridge at Tain, Corentyne.Dead is eighteen-year-old Deokalie Peter, called ‘Tina’.

Police sources said the youth, formerly of Skeldon, moved to Hampshire Village, Berbice about a month ago, after leaving her parents home two years ago.

Deokalie Peter, called Tina (left) and friend Samantha Lester in happier times 

According to an eyewitness, she awoke and discovered the woman lying in a semi-unconscious state on her bridge.

She said based on information received, the young woman had earlier crawled from the opposite side of the main thoroughfare in the vicinity of the Guyana Business School.

The injured woman was first spotted by cane harvesters, who reportedly covered her with a shirt, as she was naked, prior to her creeping across the roadway to a resident’s home, where she was fitted with a pants moments before she grasped the last breath.

The resident said the body displayed marks of violence, inclusive of a slashed wrist and bruises on the nose.

Samantha Lester, whom the teenager lived with prior to her death, said Tina was last seen alive around 16:00 hrs Monday, when she left for work.An autopsy will be preformed on the body today