A 34-year–old police officer is believed to have committed suicide at Charity on the Essequibo Coast yesterday afternoon, reportedly after a relationship went sour.
According to reports reaching Stabroek News, the police officer, Shivikanand Kishore, of Sparta, Essequibo Coast, and who is stationed at the Brickdam Police station, shot himself with his service revolver in the region of his heart while in the compound of the Charity District Hospital.
Reports are that the police officer travelled from Georgetown on Friday to be with his partner, who works at the hospital. According to reports Kishore and his partner were in a room in a building within the compound sometime around 3 pm yesterday afternoon when the two were heard arguing.
A resident in the area told Stabroek News yesterday that persons in the compound of the hospital heard a gunshot resounding from the building where the two were and soon after the woman emerged stating that Kishore had just killed himself. He said Kishore, who is well known in the area, was expected to return to Georgetown today.
His partner was being questioned last evening by ranks of the Charity Police Station while the man’s body was taken to the hospital mortuary sometime after 6 pm last evening.