The police have completed their investigation into the death of an RK security guard and it is likely that an inquest will be ordered, a senior police officer has said.
Julian Edmond Embrack, a guard attached to RK Security Service was found dead on a road in the Diamond New Housing Scheme on April 24. The senior police officer said that while circumstantial evidence pointed to suicide, the file has been sent to the Director of Public Prosecutions (DPP) for advice. He further said that the case was not closed and the police are still open to conducting further investigation.
A post-mortem examination (PME) performed on the man’s body found that he died as a result of shock and haemorrhage.
“It could be suicide but we are still investigating,” a senior police officer had told Stabroek News following the PME. He had said that the test done on the man’s hands “have not really” revealed any gun-powder residue.
Embrack, who was clad in his uniform, was discovered by a taxi driver some time after 10.30 pm on April 24 on Second Street, Diamond with a gunshot wound to the head.
The police had said in a press release that a .38 service revolver belonging to Embrack, four spent shells and one live round were found near the body. However, the man’s brother had said he was an unarmed guard.
The police officer yesterday confirmed that the man had not been issued with a firearm. However, his duties had included transporting firearms and other items to different sites and that was what he had been doing that night. The officer said it was not clear whether the man had already visited the site in that area or had been leaving at the time of his death. Guards at the location and other persons recalled seeing him walk away and then hearing a single gun shot soon after. No one saw anyone else and as such they believed the man might have shot himself even though a reason has not been identified. The officer said there was no information to suggest that the man had even been upbraided by his superiors on the night of his death for arriving at work late.
A Diamond resident had reported hearing four shots some time before 10.30 on the night in question, as he sat on his upper balcony chatting 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 a 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.”
