The widow of Kurt Duncan, the Sophia man who was fatally shot by an ex-policeman two weeks ago during a scuffle at Seeta’s Bar, is appealing to the suspect’s family to encourage him to turn himself into the police so that justice can prevail.
“Right now, all I need is that if wherever he deh, if he could just show up he self and come out and do something because meh husband he wasn’t a bad boy, he wasn’t a person with problem. He was just an innocent person… I really want, even self he family, wherever them deh. I know them hearing, them listening, them seeing… if he have a mother, if he have father, if he have sister, if them could just turn or tell he turn in he self, encourage he fah do wah is right and turn in he self because he destroy a family,” Roxanne Duncan told Stabroek News.
Duncan, called ‘Devon,’ 32, a popsicle vendor of Lot 192 North Sophia, was shot and killed around 2.07 am on July 29th at Seeta’s Bar, at Station Street, Kitty.
The father of six was shot once in his chest.
The Guyana Police Force subsequently issued a wanted bulletin for Keon David, 32, who is an ex-member of the force and also a resident of Sophia.
David, who was not a licensed firearm holder, is yet to be apprehended.
Roxanne said she has been hearing rumours that the suspect has fled the country.
“….Yuh hearing a lot of rumours. Yuh hearing he (suspect) fly out the country, yuh hearing he in Suriname, yuh hearing all kinda things and suh…he get money, he get this and he family send he away,” Roxanne related.
Police spokesman Jairam Ramlakhan, in a press statement, had said Duncan was shot after he intervened in a scuffle between a man and woman who were washing the floor of the premises.
“The victim (Duncan) who was present, intervened and reportedly assaulted the male cleaner,” the police had said.
The statement added that the suspect, who was seated nearby, allegedly whipped out a firearm and shot Duncan.
Duncan’s relatives had described him as a peaceful individual who did not get involved in trouble.
“According to what we heard, he (Kurt) was making peace…like when the altercation done, probably like he leave to go to the washroom after and like the guy (suspect) go behind he and shoot he. Duh is based on what we heard. We still don’t know,” Dellon Duncan, the dead man’s brother, had stated.
Justice
Roxanne said her main focus right now is to ensure justice is served. “…All I want is justice. I done seh anytime I ain’t get justice, I going with all ah me children and we gon’ protest on the road. Because I can’t let it go down like that, I can’t. I fighting all out because five boys fah raise is not nothing easy… I really miss meh husband real bad and I really need justice. Because something got to come up, the family got to do something fah the guy because they could see is an innocent man, six children, none is not teenager, all is just minors, lil boys. It hard. It real hard and waheva he deh I just glad if he could just come forward and let justice be done,” Roxanne related.
She noted that she will not rest until she and her children receive justice. “He (suspect) destroy a poor family and a loving family because even though we didn’t had much, we were loving to each other, happy and everything, trying fah work, fah mek ends meets and he just come from nowhere and tek my husband life like this. Is something I can’t get over. It stressing me and the children out,” the woman cried. “The guy that kill my husband, he don’t even know wah he do to a family. He don’t even know how he left a family because sometime I does just got to try fah think that me husband gone somewhere far and he coming back. Just fah get over it but is not a nice feelings,” she added.
Roxanne has many unanswered questions which she would like to ask the accused if ever given the chance. “I just want to see this guy who kill me husband ’cause I want ask he wah is the reason? Why he had to do it? Is wah me husband do yuh suh that yuh could shoot he and kill he? Wah is it?” she questioned.
She noted that she has been left to answer her children’s questions about their father. “Sometime yuh gah fah answer them question. Sometime the lil one talking ‘Why he had to kill we fadah?’ Some ah them seh when they get big wah them guh do but it got people trying to counsel them fah don’t go into that stage and suh,” Roxanne stated. “I don’t know why he shoot he and kill he…. I wouldn’t like fah how I feel and my children feel, no other family go through. Devon ain’t deserve it. I said to myself I woulda understand if he was a bad boy, if he use to trouble people thing but fah know you don’t even deh in a fight in yuh neighbourhood wah he live in, you don’t even deh in a problem and just suh a man could just pull out a gun and shoot yuh, [and] when he done shoot yuh, beat yuh with the gun. I don’t feel that man get a heart,” Roxanne stated.
Kurt was the sole breadwinner of the family and since his death Roxanne has been finding it very difficult to manage. She said she now has to look for a job in order to maintain their children.
She further stated that she is trying to work from home so that she can be able to support her children whenever necessary. “It left me with a shock and a fear because is just like when me husband get kill. I didn’t want he go out and so and is like he just left we and in a space of two to three hours that was it… So now I want them in my eyesight,” Roxanne said.
