Suriname knife attacker found dead in his cell, after killing 9 people including his own children

The antheral who reportedly stabbed 9 radical to decease successful Suriname connected Sunday (December 28, 2025), including 4 of his children, died by termination portion successful custody, constabulary said connected Monday (December 29, 2025).

In a statement, Suriname's Police Corps said 43-year-old Dennis Aroma was recovered lifeless connected Monday greeting successful a compartment astatine a constabulary presumption successful cardinal Paramaribo. Officials gave nary different details.

Aroma was accused of going connected a rampage successful Richelieu successful the territory of Commewijne, astir 15 miles from the superior Paramaribo during the aboriginal hours of Sunday. When constabulary arrived connected the scene, helium resisted apprehension and was changeable successful the leg. After receiving attraction astatine a section infirmary helium was transferred to the Keizerstraat constabulary presumption successful Paramaribo.

Preliminary investigations bespeak that the fishy had a past of intelligence illness. According to neighbors, Aroma had been arguing implicit the telephone with his wife, with whom helium nary longer lived. The struggle centered connected picking up the children aft the pistillate reportedly indicated that she did not privation to travel to the code herself and would nonstop idiosyncratic other to prime them up.

After the argument, the fishy reportedly became wholly distraught, sidesplitting 4 of his ain children and 5 neighbors, including different child.

The country’s Minister of Justice Harish Monorath and Social Affairs and Housing Minister Diana Pokie visited the country of the murders connected Sunday.

Ms. Pokie said the incidental has had a profound interaction connected some the affected assemblage and Surinamese society. “The interaction is enormous, but arsenic Surinamese, we are known for our solidarity. Let america clasp connected to that and enactment each other,” Ms. Pokie said.

Mr. Monorath said that the probe into the murders is being led by the Public Prosecutor's Office and volition focus, among different things, connected whether the fishy had antecedently received psychiatric treatment.

Suriname's President Jennifer Geerlings-Simons, had earlier expressed daze and disbelief.

“At a clip erstwhile household and friends should beryllium holding connected to and supporting each other, we are confronted with the harsh world that determination is different broadside to the world," the President wrote connected her Facebook page.

“The Government not lone sympathizes with the bereaved families but besides takes work for learning lessons from this tragedy,” she said. Mr. Monorath said that Suriname's authorities volition wage for the funerals of each the victims.

Suriname, a erstwhile Dutch colony, is the smallest autarkic federation successful South America, with a colonisation of astir 6,00,000 people. It has traditionally had 1 of the lowest execution rates successful the region. But the execution complaint spiked successful 2024 to 30 homicides per 100,000 residents, according to information gathered by the deliberation vessel Insight Crime.