A security guard attached to Roshan Khan’s Security Service (RK’s) was discovered dead along Second Street, Diamond New Housing Scheme late last night.
Reports are that the body of a man clad in RK’s uniform was discovered by a taxi driver sometime after 10.30pm. Sources reported that the body bore a single gunshot wound to the head. Up to press time this morning this newspaper was unable learn the man’s identity.
When Stabroek News arrived at the scene sometime after 11.30pm several police ranks and officials from RK’s were present. Police refused to comment and up to press time this morning had not issued a press statement. The body had already been removed.
Officials from the security company declined to speak. One employee told Stabroek News that they were going to the police station and were not “at liberty to discuss anything with the media”.
A resident reported hearing four gunshots some time before 10.30 pm. The man explained that he was sitting on his upper flat balcony with a friend when he heard the “four loud bangs one after the other”.
“After I hear these bangs I tell he [his friend] that it sound like gunshots,” the man recalled. “So I look in the general direction it come from but saw nothing…I saw no movement or anything so I went on with my own business.”
Approximately 45 minutes after he’d heard the gunshots, the man said, he saw a number of police vehicles drive through the street and stop at the first cross street. It was only then, the resident stated, that he realized that something was wrong.
Guards, stationed at the Diamond Secondary School in the same street, told this newspaper that they were going about their duties when they heard of the incident. However, they denied hearing gunshots.
The guard’s body was taken to the Lyken’s Funeral Parlour, but up to 1.05 this morning relatives had not yet reported there to identify the body. Stabroek News learnt from sources there that the only apparent wound to the body was a single gunshot to the head.
Residents reported that the man was not from the housing scheme.
