The colleague of Visiting Inspector Julian Edmond Embrack, the RK security guard who was discovered dead on a roadway in the Diamond New Housing Scheme Friday night, was released from police custody on Monday morning.

Embrack, who was clad in his uniform, was discovered by a taxi driver some time after 10:30 pm on Friday on Second Street, Diamond with a gunshot wound to the head.

In a press release yesterday RK’s Guyana Security Services said “The other inspector in his [Embrack’s] company, Mr. Morrison has been released by police”. The security firm further stated that it will stand the funeral expenses; assist with the costs of wakes and will do all that is possible to see that the  Embracks receive National Insurance Scheme benefits.

“Up to the time of death, for several months he was living at RK’s Security property located in Success, E.C.D.” He was provided this facility as he said he had personal problems and had nowhere to stay, the RK’s release said.

Police said on Saturday that a man [identified as Mr. Morrison in RK’s release] had been arrested and was at the time assisting with the investigations. A post-mortem examination is expected to be conducted on the body today.

The same police release had said that a .38 service revolver belonging to Embrack, along with four spent shells and one live round were found near the body. However, the man’s brother said he was an unarmed guard.

“An RK official told me that my brother was in training to carry a weapon, but that he was unarmed,” the brother had said.

On Friday night, a Diamond resident reported hearing four shots some time before 10:30 pm as he sat chatting on his upper balcony with a friend. The man had told this newspaper that he looked in the direction the sounds came from but saw nothing. Approximately 45 minutes later, he saw a number of police vehicles drive through the street and stop at the first cross street. It was only then, he said, that he realized that something was wrong.

Embrack was employed as a Site Security Officer on September 24 last and was subsequently promoted to Visiting Inspector on his request and after training.

The owner of the security service, Roshan Khan, in an earlier press statement said the entire staff was shocked, depressed and disappointed over the loss of life of a competent officer.

“In regards to his death, how or why, we cannot answer this for we were not there, nor were we in his head, especially as he reported as normal and went ahead with his work as usual,” Khan said in the statement.  “It is best to await the autopsy and necessary forensic tests which will tell us exactly how it happened.

“If it was self-inflicted that will be known as there are certain traits and evidence which will determine this.  If it was by assassination/murder that will also be established.  We have faith in the system.”