Four suspects including a mother and her teenaged daughter will today be charged with the murder of Keith Hohenkirk, the shopkeeper who was found bound and gagged in his Tuschen, East Bank Essequibo (EBE) home on Sunday.
Stabroek News was reliably informed that the police received legal advice yesterday to charge the suspects with murder.
Among the suspects in custody are two men who allegedly committed the crime. They were arrested on Tuesday.
The two other suspects are a teenage girl and her mother. They allegedly planned the crime and were the first to be detained by the police for questioning.
The lifeless body of Hohenkirk was discovered on Sunday morning at his Tuschen Housing Scheme, EBE home.
It is suspected that the 59-year-old shopkeeper was attacked sometime between 6.40 pm on Saturday and 6.39 am on Sunday.
An autopsy revealed that Hohenkirk died as a result of haemorrhaging in the brain due to blunt trauma to the head along with compression injuries to the neck.
In a report, police had said a neighbour went to check on Hohenkirk and as she opened the front door which was not locked, she observed that the entire hall and kitchen area had been ransacked.
Further checks in the bedroom revealed the victim lying motionless on his back with his hands bound with transparent scotch tape and his mouth tied with a piece of brown cloth.
The police were summoned and his body was checked for marks of violence but none was seen.
Hohenkirk’s stepdaughter, Simone, had told this newspaper that his death is a mystery to her.
“I am still shocked because the neighbours run and come to me this morning when they find him. I was still in bed and when they come I thought he tek in because he is a diabetic. But it was not that, it was to tell me he dead. When I go to the home I saw him lying on the bed,” Simone, who lives a street away explained.
She said that in March, her mother had separated from Hohenkirk and he has been living alone since.
