As the police investigation into the murder of Golden Grove resident, David Gentle continues, Acting Crime Chief Michael Kingston said several persons of interest were questioned.
Kingston yesterday informed Stabroek News that one individual was also arrested but was subsequently released.
“We haven’t got any breakthrough as yet but we are continuing the investigation……..We had someone in custody, somebody was pulled in…. but we are pursuing other options. We do have two other persons of interest we are looking for,” Kingston said.
Gentle’s lifeless body was discovered early Monday morning with chop wounds about his body and his head almost severed from his neck at Haslington, ECD.
The fifty-five-year-old had left his Lot 42 Golden Grove, ECD home to attend a karaoke at Nabaclis North, also on the East Coast.
The motive for his killing remains unknown. However, robbery has been ruled out since all his belongings were retrieved from his pockets
Residents had told Stabroek News that they did not hear any strange sounds which might have alerted them to
something being amiss.
Stokley Roberts, the dead man’s brother had told this newspaper that based on the injuries inflicted, it was clear that Gentle’s attacker/s wanted him dead.
“Apparently he was ambushed. That’s more like an ambush… No one would have receive those kind of wounds and live. When a man head actually come off his body, how he gonna live like that? He wasn’t robbed because everything was retrieved from his pocket, in terms of his phone, he had on a ring. So it was clearly a murder,” Roberts had said.
Roberts had said he believed that his brother’s killing was linked to either his job at the Nabaclis Neighbourhood Democratic Council (NDC) or because he reportedly gave chase behind some men who evaded the police.
“I think for the kind of job he was doing that might actually attract some kind of discomfort with some people because he is like an enforcer to the village… people might be living on the parapet and public reserve… the position he got, he is like an enforcement officer… he would approach you, serve you and them kind ah things and you know that might not be comfortable with some people,” Roberts had said.
He noted that Gentle saw himself as the “village eye.”
He further explained that in search of answers, he himself did some investigating and learnt on Monday that Gentle had recently given chase behind some persons who had reportedly evaded the police.
“…They were people on bicycle but after the police vehicle cannot go across small bridges, they use this cross street and he (David) was seated right at the cross street, where they evaded the police from the main road, where the police can’t go in, and he probably pick up the trail from there. By that time, they did already evaded the police. That’s how he met his death by actually going after these people…my knowledge and my ground work that I did is that he was following these guys,” Roberts related.
