A Linden farmer was found dead with a single gunshot wound to the chest some distance from his farm along the Ituni Road.
Some time after 1 pm yesterday, police received an anonymous call indicating that there was a dead man on the road. Following the directions, they found the body of a man with a gunshot wound to the chest at Seven Miles Ituni Road. Relatives later identified the body as that of 51-year-old Linden McPherson of Wismar Housing Scheme.
The man’s twin brother Llewellyn McPherson said he was shocked when he was told that his brother was killed. “He is a man does go and spend one and two weeks on he farm before he come home and probably is come he was coming out and dah happen,” Llewellyn said. He recalled seeing his brother last week Monday the same day he left for his farm.
According to Llewellyn he was too distraught to look at his brother’s body at the Upper Demerara Hospital Mortuary, but said he was told by police ranks that he had a gunshot wound to the chest. “I remember he lying deh dead with he vest and jeans… Dah hard man… meh buddy gan like dah,” he sobbed. He expressed the belief that his brother was killed between late Sunday night and early yesterday morning.
Colette David, the mother of one of the man’s children, said she was returning home after burying her father yesterday when she got word of Linden’s death. “Oh God is from one thing to another…. How ah gon tell he son this now?” wailed the woman.
David said she and the man no longer shared a relationship, but he surprised her last week Sunday when he went to her home and hugged her giving his sympathy on the death of her father. She said she had told him that their son was not well and he had promised that when he returned from his farm he would have given her some cash to take their son to see a doctor. “Look at that,” exclaimed the woman, “He never made it out.”
Persons close to the man said that they strongly believed that it was his murderer who called the police and that the person might have used McPherson’s cell phone to make the call. No cell phone was found on the man’s body or on the scene.
