A twenty-five-year-old West Bank Demerara mason was killed on Tuesday night in a hit and run accident and the suspected driver of the car and two others have been arrested.
The dead man has been identified as Imran Abdul, of Lot 24 Unity Street, La Grange, West Bank Demerara. According to a police report, the accident occurred at about 9:40 pm. Abdul sustained injuries to his head and back. The police later found the vehicle believed to be involved in the hit and run being stripped at a Belle West bodywork shop.
Fazal Khan, Abdul’s older brother who lives in Goed Fortuin Squatting Area said that Abdul had spent a little over two hours at his residence and had left at about 9 pm on Tuesday. Following the accident, he learnt that after Abdul left his residence he had visited another friend at Side Line Dam, La Grange. Khan said his brother was probably walking along the road while waiting for transportation as his home in La Grange is situated at the other end of the community, some fifteen to twenty minutes away by foot.
Khan recalled receiving a call from their mother about 10 pm telling him that Abdul had been involved in an accident. When he arrived at the scene, his brother appeared to be dead. He was later pronounced dead on arrival at the West Demerara Regional Hospital.
At the time of the incident no one knew who the driver of the car was. However, by yesterday morning, the deceased’s family was tipped off about a car that had some damage to its bumper at a bodywork shop in Belle West, Canal Number Two. “Today (yesterday) we got information about a car being stripped in Belle West. [At the scene of the accident] there was paint from the car involved. The mud flap fall off the car. The police keep that as evidence,” Khan said.
Khan and an uncle accompanied the police to Belle West and conducted a search of the community before finally coming upon a Toyota Spacio car believed to be the vehicle involved in the accident, in the process of being
stripped. “When we reach there, they had already loose off the bumper from the car and was fixing the dents and damages on it”, Khan informed.
Police have since released a statement saying that the driver of the car, a thirty-two-year-old man from Stanleytown, West Bank Demerara, along with two other persons have been arrested. The men are currently being detained at the La Grange Police Station. Police investigations continue.
Abdul’s body is currently at the Ezekiel Funeral Home. A post-mortem is expected to be conducted tomorrow.
