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An autopsy performed on Rudolph Moonsammy yesterday revealed that he died from a fractured skull and brain laceration.
As a result, the employee accused of beating the 73-year-old man with a piece of wood and chopping him has now been charged with murder. The accused is expected to appear before the Vreed-en-hoop Magistrates’ Court on Monday.
Moonsammy lived alone in his Lot 3 St. Lawrence, East Bank Essequibo home where he managed a poultry farm owned by his US-based son. Some time around 6.30pm last Monday, reports had said, Moonsammy attempted to reprimand a drunken employee who’d been verbally abusing his wife and had chopped a co-worker earlier that evening. The employee reportedly attacked Moonsammy battering him to the head and chopping him. A neighbour witnessed the incident but made no attempt to help. It was later that other residents found the man unconscious in his bedroom.
Roy Madraymootoo told this newspaper on Thursday that his father never regained consciousness. Moonsammy was initially taken to the Leonora Cottage Hospital after the attack and was transferred to the Georgetown Public Hospital several hours later.
He succumbed to his wounds early Thursday morning while a patient of the hospital’s Intensive Care Unit.
Moonsammy will be cremated today at Ruimzeight, West Coast Demerara.
Meanwhile, relatives of Linden taxi driver Damion Lindore hope to bury him tomorrow after a second autopsy by a Trinidadian pathologist is conducted today. An initial examination conducted by a local pathologist found the injuries that resulted in Lindore’s death consistent with those caused by an accident but the dead man’s relatives are unsatisfied with the findings and made arrangements for a second autopsy.
The family planned the second autopsy after an eyewitness told police that around 10.30pm on May 26 Lindore was beaten to death and robbed of his belongings then an accident was staged at Silver Hill, Linden Soesdyke Highway to cover up the crime.
The man’s mother Donna Lindore said she hopes to lay her son’s body to rest on Sunday as his funeral was delayed because the results of the first autopsy had been withheld.
Meanwhile, the four men held for questioning in the man’s death were released on Monday.
