Police are seeking the advice of the Director of Public Prosecutions (DPP) to determine whether charges should be laid against an Ithaca cattle rancher who is believed to have shot and killed a 35-year-old man on Saturday.
Marlon Fraser called `Bruk Hand’ of Ogeer Street, Rosignol was shot dead by the cattle rancher around 10 am after he was accused of stealing cattle. The rancher, who is a licensed firearm holder reported the matter to the police and was subsequently taken into custody.
The suspect had told the ranks that Fraser attacked him with a cutlass and he pulled out his licenced firearm and shot him.
A senior policeman in Berbice told Stabroek News yesterday that the rancher is still in custody. He said that the file was completed and sent to the DPP sometime yesterday for advice on the way forward.
The officer said that a post-mortem conducted on Fraser on Monday revealed that he died from shock and hemorrhaging due to a gunshot wound.
Meanwhile at his Rosignol home, his reputed wife Michelle Bess was still in a state of shock. She recalled that someone called her relative and informed them that Fraser was shot by a man in the Ithaca savannah. She said that he had been working there for several years looking after a man’s cows and never had a problem with anyone.
The woman who has four young children with Fraser said that by the time she could have reached the public road, the hearse was already passing with his body.
She said she later saw him at the morgue and there was a big hole in his neck and his stomach, hands and feet were burnt up.
Bess described her reputed husband as a quiet person who never quarrelled and got into fights.
Fraser will be laid to rest tomorrow.
