The police in ‘B’ Division are investigating the murder of an Angoy’s Avenue mechanic. Richard Dey, 40 years, of 205-207 Angoy’s Avenue, New Amsterdam was discovered dead, face down lying in a pool of blood in an alleyway on Saturday night around 22:30 hours. His body was found a few feet aback his house where he lived for some nine years with his family. It bore a suspected bullet wound to the head and there was a laceration at the throat. Dey, a father of two sons, was on his way to celebrate his younger son’s first birthday with friends when he was killed.
The man’s wife, Ongel Lindie, told Stabroek News, her husband who was a mechanic by profession, had just left their home to go celebrate with friends when she heard a loud noise. “Just after 9:30pm he left the house to go hang out with friends and a couple minutes after I heard a loud explosion”. The distraught woman explained that after hearing the explosion she became worried and started calling out to her husband from the side veranda of their house. “I know is the track through the alleyway he use and that the car was parked on the road, so I start hollering for him. When he didn’t answer, I start calling him on his cell phone but got no answer”.
Lindie said though worried, she did not venture out of the house to investigate the explosion because she had assumed her husband was probably already on his way to meet his friends. She recalled however, that several minutes had elapsed when a boy called out to her to come and see if the person lying through the alleyway was a relative of hers. That brought her out of the house with a speed.
“A boy come calling saying, ‘come quick, somebody lying through the alley in a pool of blood. See if you know the person’. After I hear that, I realize the explosion had to be a gunshot so I run out the house and straight to the alleyway and that is when I see him lying there and my worst nightmare come to life,” Lindie said before bursting into tears. The woman could not come to terms with what she said was “supposed to be a bright day in our lives – our son’s birthday. It’s now a dark day. My son’s birthday will forever be my husband’s death anniversary”.
Meanwhile, Dey’s friends expressed shock at his death. They described him as a fun-loving person who always seemed on top of the world and recalled that he was ‘sporting’ all of Saturday and was in high spirits because it was his son’s birthday and he wanted to celebrate.
Dey leaves to mourn his wife Ongel, two sons ages 6 and 1, and other relatives and friends.
