Crime Chief Seelall Persaud said this afternoon that the death of 90-year-old security guard Adolphus James is now being treated as a murder after a post-mortem examination revealed that he died as a result of brain haemorrhage and compression injury to the neck.
The PME was conducted today.
Persaud said that no one has yet been held before pointing out that it is only now that ranks have determined that the Yuraballi Street, Retrieve, Mackenzie, Linden resident was murdered.
Asked about motive, he said that a place next door to where James was working the night shift was broken into and a number of items were reported missing. Persaud told Stabroek News that it is suspected that the elderly man might have witnessed the break in and was subsequently killed.
James who had been employed at the Amazon Security Firm since 1993 was discovered dead around 6 am at consumers’ goods complex at Linden. This discovery was made by a female security guard who went in search of him after not seeing him in the guard hut.
Initially persons said that they suspected that the elderly man might have tripped and fallen; hitting his head on one of the many cement rocks at the back of the building.
