Andre Gordon, the US-based Guyanese man who was discovered dead in his Kitty apartment on Sunday morning was strangled, an autopsy confirmed.
The autopsy was performed yesterday on Gordon’s body by Government Pathologist Nehaul Singh who gave his cause of death as strangulation. A police source yesterday told Stabroek News that investigators are now treating Gordon’s death as murder. No arrest has yet been made.
The lifeless body of Gordon called ‘Blackie’, 52, a chef of New York was discovered around 10.30am Sunday by a friend who went to the Station Street, Kitty apartment, he was renting.
At the time of the discovery, Gordon was found lying face down and there was a foul scent in the apartment. It is believed that he died sometime between last Friday night and Saturday.
Jude (only name given), Gordon’s friend who made the discovery had related to Stabroek News that he decided to check on Gordon after he didn’t hear from him over the weekend. The last time they spoke, he said, was last Friday night when he left for home.
“We call him yesterday (last Saturday) [but] we didn’t hear from him. We came here and call out for him and didn’t get a response. So this morning (Sunday), I came and call back for him and it was the same thing, no response,” Jude recounted.
He said that his instincts led him to open a door and it was at this point that he realised that the doors were not secured. “When I push the first door, it open and then the grill door was open also…After I open the door, I went into the house and found him lying in the kitchen naked with blood running down his body,” the friend had said.
Gordon worked as a chef at Four Seasons Vegetarian Restaurant on Church Avenue in Brooklyn, New York. He was assisting his employers with the opening of a restaurant here.
He had only been in the country for a week and was expected to depart on Sunday night.
